Elastin-based molecular MRI of liver fibrosis
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Molecular MRI of collagen to diagnose and stage liver fibrosis.
BACKGROUND & AIMS The gold standard in assessing liver fibrosis is biopsy despite limitations like invasiveness and sampling error and complications including morbidity and mortality. Therefore, there is a major unmet medical need to quantify fibrosis non-invasively to facilitate early diagnosis of chronic liver disease and provide a means to monitor disease progression. The goal of this study ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hepatology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0270-9139
DOI: 10.1002/hep.26326