Title :
Preliminary Experiments on Magnetic Resonance Elastography
Author :
Xu, L.F. ; Wang, H.Z. ; Zhang, X.L.
Author_Institution :
Med. Instrum. Coll., Univ. of Shanghai for Scinece & Technol., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
Accurate detection of hepatic fibrosis is crucial for assessing prognosis and the treatment in patients with chronic liver disease. As a new noninvasive imaging technique, Magnetic resonance elastograhpy (MRE) can assess tissue elasticity and achieve accurate assessment of liver fibrosis. Making patients free of biopsy examination, MRE has great value for study and promising future for application.
Keywords :
biological tissues; biomechanics; biomedical MRI; elasticity; liver; patient treatment; chronic liver disease; hepatic fibrosis; magnetic resonance elastography; noninvasive imaging technique; patient treatment; prognosis; tissue elasticity; Elasticity; Liver; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic resonance imaging; Phantoms;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5088-6
DOI :
10.1109/icbbe.2011.5780215
