Chronic pancreatitis is a clinical entity that results from the progressive inflammation and
irreversible fibrosis of the pancreas resulting from the cumulative injury sustained by the …

MRI and MRCP play an important role in the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis (CP) by
imaging pancreatic parenchyma and ducts. MRI/MRCP is more widely used than computed …

Chronic pancreatitis is an inflammatory condition of the pancreas with clinical manifestations
ranging from abdominal pain, acute pancreatitis, exocrine and/or endocrine dysfunction, and …

Abstract Prospective Evaluation of Chronic Pancreatitis for Epidemiologic and Translational
Studies (PROCEED) is the first prospective, observational cohort study of chronic …

Purpose To determine if quantitative MRI techniques can be helpful to evaluate chronic
pancreatitis (CP) in a setting of multi-institutional study. Methods This study included a …

Characteristic features of chronic pancreatitis (CP) may be absent on standard imaging
studies. Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques such as T 1 mapping …

Background Early detection and classification of chronic pancreatitis (CP) are both important
and challenging. Purpose To investigate the diagnostic performance of MR elastography …

Purpose This study aimed to assess the relationship between pancreatic fibrosis measured
by the extracellular volume fraction (ECV) using contrast-enhanced computed tomography …

Purpose Knowledge of the underlying mechanisms behind progression of chronic
pancreatitis (CP) is needed to identify targets for new mechanism-based treatments. There is …

Purpose Compare four T 1-mapping pulse sequences for T 1 relaxometry and extracellular
volume (ECV) fraction of the pancreas and liver Materials and methods In vitro phase of this …