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Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging of liver: Principles, clinical applications and recent updates

Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), a functional imaging technique exploiting the Brownian motion of water molecules, is increasingly shown to have value in various oncological and non-oncological applications. Factors such as the ease of acquisition and ability to obtain functional information in the...

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Autores principales: Shenoy-Bhangle, Anuradha, Baliyan, Vinit, Kordbacheh, Hamed, Guimaraes, Alexander R, Kambadakone, Avinash
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5612839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28989564
http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v9.i26.1081
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author Shenoy-Bhangle, Anuradha
Baliyan, Vinit
Kordbacheh, Hamed
Guimaraes, Alexander R
Kambadakone, Avinash
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description Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), a functional imaging technique exploiting the Brownian motion of water molecules, is increasingly shown to have value in various oncological and non-oncological applications. Factors such as the ease of acquisition and ability to obtain functional information in the absence of intravenous contrast, especially in patients with abnormal renal function, have contributed to the growing interest in exploring clinical applications of DWI. In the liver, DWI demonstrates a gamut of clinical applications ranging from detecting focal liver lesions to monitoring response in patients undergoing serial follow-up after loco-regional and systemic therapies. DWI is also being applied in the evaluation of diffuse liver diseases such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis. In this review, we intend to review the basic principles, technique, current clinical applications and future trends of DW-MRI in the liver.
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spelling pubmed-56128392017-10-06 Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging of liver: Principles, clinical applications and recent updates Shenoy-Bhangle, Anuradha Baliyan, Vinit Kordbacheh, Hamed Guimaraes, Alexander R Kambadakone, Avinash World J Hepatol Review Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), a functional imaging technique exploiting the Brownian motion of water molecules, is increasingly shown to have value in various oncological and non-oncological applications. Factors such as the ease of acquisition and ability to obtain functional information in the absence of intravenous contrast, especially in patients with abnormal renal function, have contributed to the growing interest in exploring clinical applications of DWI. In the liver, DWI demonstrates a gamut of clinical applications ranging from detecting focal liver lesions to monitoring response in patients undergoing serial follow-up after loco-regional and systemic therapies. DWI is also being applied in the evaluation of diffuse liver diseases such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis. In this review, we intend to review the basic principles, technique, current clinical applications and future trends of DW-MRI in the liver. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2017-09-18 2017-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5612839/ /pubmed/28989564 http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v9.i26.1081 Text en ©The Author(s) 2017. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial.
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Shenoy-Bhangle, Anuradha
Baliyan, Vinit
Kordbacheh, Hamed
Guimaraes, Alexander R
Kambadakone, Avinash
Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging of liver: Principles, clinical applications and recent updates
title Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging of liver: Principles, clinical applications and recent updates
title_full Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging of liver: Principles, clinical applications and recent updates
title_fullStr Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging of liver: Principles, clinical applications and recent updates
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title_short Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging of liver: Principles, clinical applications and recent updates
title_sort diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging of liver: principles, clinical applications and recent updates
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5612839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28989564
http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v9.i26.1081
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