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Title

Liver stiffness assessment by tagged MRI of cardiac-induced liver motion.

Authors

Chung, Sohae; Breton, Elodie; Mannelli, Lorenzo; Axel, Leon

Abstract

The article presents research on liver stiffness assessment using tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of cardiac-induced liver motion. It relates cirrhosis an important and growing public health problem for Americans and how the development of liver fibrosis presented a pathological hallmark. It reports a method using magnetization-tagged MRI to measure the cardiac-induced motion and deformation in the liver. It tells that the results show statistically significant differences between healthy and cirrhotic subjects in terms of maximum displacement.

Subjects

MAGNETIC resonance imaging; MEDICAL imaging systems; CIRRHOSIS of the liver; PUBLIC health research; HEART disease diagnostic equipment

Publication

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2011, Vol 65, Issue 4, p949

ISSN

0740-3194

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1002/mrm.22785