Effects of oral contrast agent on the viscoelastic properties of the terminal ileum investigated using magnetic resonance elastography.

Sa-Ra Ro Florian N Loch Britta Siegmund Anja A KühlGero-Mathias NeumannBernd Hamm Juergen Braun Ingolf Sack Rolf Reiter

Published in: Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery (2024)

The results of this study suggest that bowel distension for intestinal MR elastography has no systematic effect on the biomechanical tissue properties of the terminal ileum determined by MR elastography. Therefore, future study protocols appear feasible with or without oral contrast agents.

Keyphrases

magnetic resonance
contrast enhanced
liver fibrosis
computed tomography
mass spectrometry
high resolution
single molecule