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SUBMITTER: Shire NJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3176946 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shire Norah J NJ Yin Meng M Chen Jun J Railkar Radha A RA Fox-Bosetti Sabrina S Johnson Stephanie M SM Beals Chan R CR Dardzinski Bernard J BJ Sanderson Schuyler O SO Talwalkar Jayant A JA Ehman Richard L RL
Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 20110712 4
<h4>Purpose</h4>To conduct a rigorous evaluation of the repeatability of liver stiffness assessed by MR elastography (MRE) in healthy and hepatitis-C-infected subjects.<h4>Materials and methods</h4>A biopsy-correlated repeatability study using four-slice MRE was conducted in five healthy and four HCV-infected subjects. Subjects were scanned twice on day 1 and after 7-14 days. Each slice was acquired during a 14-s breath-hold with a commercially available acquisition technique (MR-Touch, GE Healt ...[more]