Magnetic resonance elastography from fundamental soft-tissue mechanics to diagnostic imaging

I Sack - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a versatile imaging technique for mapping the
viscoelastic properties of soft biological tissues. It has been widely used to detect liver …

Multiparametric MR mapping in clinical decision-making for diffuse liver disease

HB Thomaides-Brears, R Lepe, R Banerjee… - Abdominal …, 2020 - Springer
Accurate diagnosis, monitoring and treatment decisions in patients with chronic liver disease
currently rely on biopsy as the diagnostic gold standard, and this has constrained early …

Free‐breathing multitasking multi‐echo MRI for whole‐liver water‐specific T1, proton density fat fraction, and quantification

N Wang, T Cao, F Han, Y Xie, X Zhong… - Magnetic resonance …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop a 3D multitasking multi‐echo (MT‐ME) technique for the
comprehensive characterization of liver tissues with 5‐min free‐breathing acquisition; whole …

MRI extracellular volume fraction in liver fibrosis—a comparison of different time points and blood pool measurements

VC Obmann, M Ardoino, J Klaus… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Extracellular volume (ECV) correlates with the degree of liver fibrosis. Purpose
To analyze the performance of liver MRI‐based ECV evaluations with different blood pool …

Convolutional neural network for automated segmentation of the liver and its vessels on non-contrast T1 vibe Dixon acquisitions

L Zbinden, D Catucci, Y Suter, A Berzigotti, L Ebner… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
We evaluated the effectiveness of automated segmentation of the liver and its vessels with a
convolutional neural network on non-contrast T1 vibe Dixon acquisitions. A dataset of non …

Bacterial association with metals enables in vivo monitoring of urogenital microbiota using magnetic resonance imaging

SC Donnelly, GE Varela-Mattatall, S Hassan… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Bacteria constitute a significant part of the biomass of the human microbiota, but their
interactions are complex and difficult to replicate outside the host. Exploiting the superior …

Simultaneous proton density fat‐fraction and imaging with water‐specific T1 mapping (PROFIT1): application in liver

RB Thompson, K Chow, D Mager… - Magnetic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To describe and validate a simultaneous proton density fat‐fraction (PDFF) imaging
and water‐specific T1 mapping (T1 (Water)) approach for the liver (PROFIT1) with mapping …

MRI quantification techniques in fatty liver: the diagnostic performance of hepatic T1, T2, and stiffness measurements in relation to the proton density fat fraction

A Erden, DK Öz, E Peker, M Kul… - Diagnostic and …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PURPOSE Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) can progress to liver cirrhosis and is
predicted to become the most frequent indication for liver transplantation in the near future …

T1 mapping of the liver and the spleen in patients with liver fibrosis—does normalization to the blood pool increase the predictive value?

VC Obmann, A Berzigotti, D Catucci, L Ebner… - European …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose To analyze whether the T1 relaxation time of the liver is a good predictor of
significant liver fibrosis and whether normalization to the blood pool improves the predictive …

T1 reduction rate with Gd-EOB-DTPA determines liver function on both 1.5 T and 3 T MRI

VC Obmann, D Catucci, A Berzigotti, C Gräni… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic resonance T1 mapping before and after Gd-EOB-DTPA administration allows
quantification of the T1 reduction rate as a non-invasive surrogate marker of liver function. A …