Advanced MRI methods for assessment of chronic liver disease

B Taouli, RL Ehman, SB Reeder - American journal of …, 2009 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. With recent advances in technology, advanced MRI methods such as diffusion-
weighted and perfusion-weighted MRI, MR elastography, chemical shift-based fat-water …

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Diagnostic and Fat-Grading Accuracy of Low-Flip-Angle Multiecho Gradient-Recalled-Echo MR Imaging at 1.5 T1

T Yokoo, M Bydder, G Hamilton, MS Middleton… - Radiology, 2009 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose: To assess the accuracy of four fat quantification methods at low-flip-angle
multiecho gradient-recalled-echo (GRE) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in nonalcoholic …

Fatty liver disease: MR imaging techniques for the detection and quantification of liver steatosis

FH Cassidy, T Yokoo, L Aganovic, RF Hanna… - Radiographics, 2009 - pubs.rsna.org
Fatty liver disease is the most common cause of chronic liver disease in the United States.
Noninvasive detection and quantification of fat is becoming more and more important …

Quantification of hepatic steatosis with MRI: the effects of accurate fat spectral modeling

SB Reeder, PM Robson, H Yu… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop a chemical‐shift–based imaging method for fat quantification that
accounts for the complex spectrum of fat, and to compare this method with MR spectroscopy …

Effect of PRESS and STEAM sequences on magnetic resonance spectroscopic liver fat quantification

G Hamilton, MS Middleton, M Bydder… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To compare PRESS and STEAM MR spectroscopy for assessment of liver fat in
human subjects. Materials and Methods Single‐voxel (20× 20× 20 mm) PRESS and STEAM …

Quantification of Liver Fat Content: Comparison of Triple-Echo Chemical Shift Gradient-Echo Imaging and in Vivo Proton MR Spectroscopy1

B Guiu, JM Petit, R Loffroy, D Ben Salem, S Aho… - Radiology, 2009 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose: To validate a triple-echo gradient-echo sequence for measuring the fat content of
the liver, by using hydrogen 1 (1H) magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy as the reference …

Measurement of Hepatic Lipid: High-Speed T2-Corrected Multiecho Acquisition at 1H MR Spectroscopy—A Rapid and Accurate Technique

N Pineda, P Sharma, Q Xu, X Hu, M Vos, DR Martin - Radiology, 2009 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To evaluate the feasibility, accuracy, and reproducibility of a fast breath-hold
magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopic method for T2-corrected hepatic lipid measurement …

[PDF][PDF] Glucose dysregulation and hepatic steatosis in obese adolescents: is there a link?

AMG Cali, AM De Oliveira, H Kim, S Chen… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Fatty liver is increasingly common in obese adolescents. We determined its association with
glucose dysregulation in 118 (37M/81F) obese adolescents of similar age and percent total …

Noninvasive quantitation of human liver steatosis using magnetic resonance and bioassay methods

G d'Assignies, M Ruel, A Khiat, L Lepanto… - European …, 2009 - Springer
The purpose was to evaluate the ability of three magnetic resonance (MR) techniques to
detect liver steatosis and to determine which noninvasive technique (MR, bioassays) or …

Mapping of liver fat with triple-echo gradient echo imaging: validation against 3.0-T proton MR spectroscopy

B Guiu, R Loffroy, JM Petit, S Aho, D Ben Salem… - European …, 2009 - Springer
The purpose of this study was to validate a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique for
mapping liver fat, using 1 H magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1 H-MRS) as the reference …