Diagnosis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in children and adolescents: position paper of the ESPGHAN Hepatology Committee

P Vajro, S Lenta, P Socha, A Dhawan… - Journal of pediatric …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common cause of chronic liver disease
in children and adolescents in the United States, and most probably also in the rest of the …

[HTML][HTML] Proton density fat-fraction: a standardized MR-based biomarker of tissue fat concentration

SB Reeder, HH Hu, CB Sirlin - Journal of magnetic resonance …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
On February 19–22, the 2012 ISMRM Workshop on Fat–Water Separation was held in Long
Beach, California. Over 130 attendees from 13 countries convened to discuss historical …

Addressing phase errors in fat‐water imaging using a mixed magnitude/complex fitting method

D Hernando, CDG Hines, H Yu… - Magnetic resonance in …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate, noninvasive measurements of liver fat content are needed for the early diagnosis
and quantitative staging of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Chemical shift‐based fat …

MRI-measured pelvic bone marrow adipose tissue is inversely related to DXA-measured bone mineral in younger and older adults

W Shen, J Chen, M Gantz, M Punyanitya… - European journal of …, 2012 - nature.com
RESULTS: An inverse correlation was observed between pelvic BMAT and pelvic, total and
spine BMD in the younger PBM group (r=− 0.419 to− 0.461, P< 0.001) and in the older PoBL …

Hepatic Fat Accumulation Is Modulated by the Interaction between the rs738409 Variant in the PNPLA3 Gene and the Dietary Omega6/Omega3 PUFA Intake

N Santoro, M Savoye, G Kim, K Marotto, MM Shaw… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), the rs738409, in the patatin like
phospholipase 3 gene (PNPLA3) has been recently associated with increased hepatic …

Gd‐EOB‐DTPA‐enhanced MR imaging: prediction of hepatic fibrosis stages using liver contrast enhancement index and liver‐to‐spleen volumetric ratio

S Goshima, M Kanematsu, H Watanabe… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To develop and evaluate a quantitative parameter for staging hepatic fibrosis by
contrast enhancement signal intensity and morphological measurements from gadoxetic …

Diffusion‐weighted MRI of fatty liver

AK Poyraz, MR Onur, E Kocakoç… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To investigate the effect of fat infiltration on the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC)
of liver, and assess the relationship between ADC and hepatic fat fraction (HFF). Materials …

Liver steatosis: concordance of MR imaging and MR spectroscopic data with histologic grade

SM Noworolski, MM Lam, RB Merriman, L Ferrell… - Radiology, 2012 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To determine if the concordance of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and MR
spectroscopic data with histologic measures of steatosis is affected by histologic …

Accelerated water–fat imaging using restricted subspace field map estimation and compressed sensing

SD Sharma, HH Hu, KS Nayak - Magnetic resonance in …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Water–fat separation techniques play an important role in a variety of clinical and research
applications. In particular, multiecho separation methods remain a topic of great interest due …

Robust multipoint water‐fat separation using fat likelihood analysis

H Yu, SB Reeder, A Shimakawa… - Magnetic resonance …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Fat suppression is an essential part of routine MRI scanning. Multiecho chemical‐shift based
water‐fat separation methods estimate and correct for Bo field inhomogeneity. However …