Liver stiffness assessment by tagged MRI of cardiac-induced liver motion
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Liver stiffness assessment by tagged MRI of cardiac-induced liver motion.
Cirrhosis is an important and growing public health problem, affecting millions of Americans and many more people internationally. A pathological hallmark of the progression to cirrhosis is the development of liver fibrosis, so that monitoring the appearance and progression of liver fibrosis can be used to guide therapy. Here, we report a method to use magnetization-tagged magnetic resonance im...
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عنوان ژورنال: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0740-3194
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22785