Technical success rates and reliability of spin-echo echo-planar imaging (SE-EPI) MR elastography in patients with chronic liver disease or liver cirrhosis.

Sang Lim ChoiEun Sun LeeAra KoHyun Jeong ParkSung Bin ParkByung Ihn ChoiYoung Youn ChoStephan Kannengiesser

Published in: European radiology (2019)

• The technical success rate of MR elastography in spin-echo echo-planar imaging (SE-EPI) was significantly higher than that in gradient-recalled echo (GRE) during both the inspiratory and expiratory phases. • Liver stiffness values were significantly higher during inspiration than during expiration in both GRE and SE-EPI. • MR elastography in SE-EPI during expiratory breath-hold can be used as a reliable examination in patients with liver fibrosis.

Keyphrases

liver fibrosis
contrast enhanced
magnetic resonance
diffusion weighted
diffusion weighted imaging
magnetic resonance imaging
high resolution
computed tomography
room temperature
single molecule
density functional theory
photodynamic therapy
molecular dynamics
transition metal