Hepatic fat quantification using the two-point Dixon method and fat color maps based on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease activity score

Hepatology Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 455-464

  Hayashi, Tatsuya ^a,b,c,d   Saitoh, Satoshi ^a,b   Takahashi, Junji ^a,b   Tsuji, Yoshinori ^a,b   Ikeda, Kenji ^a,b   Kobayashi, Masahiro ^a,b   Kawamura, Yusuke ^a,b   Fujii, Takeshi ^a,b   Inoue, Masafumi ^e   Miyati, Tosiaki ^c   Kumada, Hiromitsu ^a,b  

^a TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KYUSHU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

fatty liver; magnetic resonance imaging; non alcoholic fatty liver disease; non alcoholic steatohepatitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEATOSIS; TWO POINT DIXON METHOD;

EID: 84979780774     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: 1872034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hepr.12767     Document Type: Article

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