Quantitative liver MRI including extracellular volume fraction for non-invasive quantification of liver fibrosis: a prospective proof-of-concept study
Gut
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2018 Mar;67(3):593-594.
doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2017-314561.
Epub 2017 Jul 28.
Authors
Julian A Luetkens
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1
,
Sabine Klein
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2
,
Frank Traeber
1
,
Frederic C Schmeel
1
,
Alois M Sprinkart
1
,
Daniel L R Kuetting
1
,
Wolfgang Block
1
,
Kanishka Hittatiya
3
,
Frank E Uschner
2
,
Robert Schierwagen
2
,
Juergen Gieseke
1
4
,
Hans H Schild
1
,
Jonel Trebicka
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2
5
6
7
,
Guido M Kukuk
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1
Affiliations
1
Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
2
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
3
Institute of Pathology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
4
Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany.
5
European Foundation for the Study of Chronic Liver Failure, Barcelona, Spain.
6
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
7
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.
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Contributed equally.
PMID:
28754777
DOI:
10.1136/gutjnl-2017-314561
No abstract available
Keywords:
abdominal MRI; chronic liver disease; hepatic fibrosis.
Publication types
Letter
Comment
MeSH terms
Humans
Liver
Liver Cirrhosis*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
Prospective Studies