## Abstract ## Purpose To assess whether hepatic fibrosis is associated with a restriction in the diffusion of water that can be analyzed with diffusionβweighted MR imaging (DWI) of the liver. ## Materials and Methods DWI was performed in 10 normal rats and 15 rats with liver fibrosis. Echoβplan
Diagnosis and quantification of hepatic fibrosis in children with diffusion weighted MR imaging
β Scribed by Ahmed Abdel Khalek Abdel Razek; Ahmed Abdalla; Eman Omran; Abeer Fathy; Khaled Zalata
- Book ID
- 116440387
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 597 KB
- Volume
- 78
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0720-048X
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