Assessment of liver perfusion by IntraVoxel Incoherent Motion (IVIM) magnetic resonance-diffusion-weighted imaging: Correlation with phase-contrast portal venous flow measurements

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 365-372

  Regini, Francesco ^a,b,c   Colagrande, Stefano ^a,b,e   Mazzoni, Lorenzo Nicola ^b   Busoni, Simone ^b   Matteuzzi, Benedetta ^a,b   Santini, Paolo ^c   Wyttenbach, Rolf ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c OSPEDALE SAN GIOVANNI   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

ADC; D; DWI; IVIM; Le Bihan's theory; portal flow

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DIFFUSION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESONANCE;

ADC; CONDITION; D; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DWI; INTRAVOXEL INCOHERENT MOTIONS; LE BIHAN THEORY; PHASE-CONTRAST; PORTAL FLOW; SLOW DIFFUSION;

MAGNETISM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMED CONSENT; INTRAVOXEL INCOHERENT MOTION; LIVER LOBE; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER PERFUSION; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER VEIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930061126     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: 15323145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0000000000000220     Document Type: Article

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