Decreases in Molecular Diffusion, Perfusion Fraction and Perfusion-Related Diffusion in Fibrotic Livers: A Prospective Clinical Intravoxel Incoherent Motion MR Imaging Study

Pu-Xuan Lu; Hua Huang; Jing Yuan; Feng Zhao; Zhi-Yi Chen; Qinwei Zhang; Anil T. Ahuja; Bo-Ping Zhou; Yì-Xiáng J. Wáng

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0113846

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Decreases in Molecular Diffusion, Perfusion Fraction and Perfusion-Related Diffusion in Fibrotic Livers: A Prospective Clinical Intravoxel Incoherent Motion MR Imaging Study

Pu-Xuan Lu,

Affiliation Department of Radiology, The Shenzhen No. 3 People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China
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Hua Huang,

Affiliation Department of Radiology, The Shenzhen No. 3 People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China
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Jing Yuan,

Affiliation Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR
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Feng Zhao,

Affiliation Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR
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Zhi-Yi Chen,

Affiliation Laboratory of Ultrasound Molecular Imaging, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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Qinwei Zhang,

Affiliation Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR
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Anil T. Ahuja,

Affiliation Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR
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Bo-Ping Zhou,

Affiliation Department of Hepatology, The Shenzhen No. 3 People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China
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Yì-Xiáng J. Wáng

* E-mail: yixiang_wang@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliation Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR
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Decreases in Molecular Diffusion, Perfusion Fraction and Perfusion-Related Diffusion in Fibrotic Livers: A Prospective Clinical Intravoxel Incoherent Motion MR Imaging Study

Pu-Xuan Lu,
Hua Huang,
Jing Yuan,
Feng Zhao,
Zhi-Yi Chen,
Qinwei Zhang,
Anil T. Ahuja,
Bo-Ping Zhou,
Yì-Xiáng J. Wáng

Published: December 1, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113846

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