Accuracy of liver fat quantification with advanced CT, MRI, and ultrasound techniques: Prospective comparison with MR spectroscopy

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 92-100

  Kramer, Harald ^a,b   Pickhardt, Perry J ^b   Kliewer, Mark A ^b   Hernando, Diego ^b   Chen, Guang Hong ^b,c   Zagzebski, James A ^b,c   Reeder, Scott B ^b,c  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Fat quantification; Hepatic steatosis; MR spectroscopy; MRI; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; SINGLE ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELASTOGRAPHY; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIVER; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85007372640     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.16.16565     Document Type: Article

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