Multimodality magnetic resonance imaging in hepatic encephalopathy: An update

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 32, 2014, Pages 11262-11272

  Zhang, Xiao Dong ^a,b   Zhang, Long Jiang ^b   Wu, Sheng Yong ^c   Lu, Guang Ming ^b  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MEDICAL SCHOOL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Medical Imaging Institute of Tianjin   (China)

Author keywords

Blood oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging; Default mode network; Diffusion weighted imaging; Hepatic encephalopathy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BLOOD OXYGENATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; MULTIMODALITY NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PATHOGENESIS; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RESTING STATE NETWORK; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; BLOOD; BRAIN; METABOLISM; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; OXYGEN;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; OXYGEN; PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 84909606770     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i32.11262     Document Type: Review

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