Interexamination repeatability and spatial heterogeneity of liver iron and fat quantification using MRI-based multistep adaptive fitting algorithm

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1281-1290

  Sofue, Keitaro ^a,b   Mileto, Achille ^a   Dale, Brian M ^c   Zhong, Xiaodong ^d   Bashir, Mustafa R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Siemens Healthcare   (United States)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

heterogeneity; liver fat; liver iron; magnetic resonance imaging; repeatability

Indexed keywords

FAT; IRON;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FAT CONTENT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER LEVEL; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; MULTISTEP ADAPTIVE FITTING ALGORITHM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTON DENSITY FAT FRACTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REGION OF INTEREST; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; LIVER; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; FATS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRON; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945492791     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24922     Document Type: Article

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