Intravoxel incoherent motion MRI for liver fibrosis assessment: A pilot study

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1428-1436

  Chung, Sae Rom ^a   Lee, Seung Soo ^a   Kim, Namkug ^a   Yu, Eun Sil ^a   Kim, Eunki ^a,d   Kühn, Bernd ^b   Kim, In Seong ^c  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS Healthcare   (South Korea)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging; Fibrosis; Intra voxel incoherent motion; Liver; Magnetic resonance imaging; Quantitative image analysis

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FIBROSIS; INTRA-VOXEL INCOHERENT MOTION; INTRAVOXEL INCOHERENT MOTIONS; QUANTITATIVE IMAGE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE ANALYSIS;

DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVOXEL INCOHERENT MOTION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PERFUSION FRACTION; PERFUSION RELATED DIFFUSION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE DIFFUSION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84960482405     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0284185114559763     Document Type: Article

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