Feasibility of measuring spleen stiffness with MR elastography and splenic volume to predict hepatic fibrosis stage
Fig 2
A 53-year-old male with chronic hepatitis B infection and pathologic fibrosis stage 3.
While the passive driver was on the right chest wall: (a) MR magnitude images provided anatomic information, (b) Wave images from the MRE acquisition at 60 Hz showing propagating shear waves, (c) Region-of-interest (white-dashed line) for liver stiffness measurement was drawn on an elastogram with confidence mapping. The liver stiffness was 3.17 kPa. While the passive driver was on the left chest wall: (d) MR magnitude images provided anatomic information, (e) Wave images from the MRE acquisition at 60 Hz showing propagating shear waves, (f) Region-of-interest (white-dashed line) for spleen stiffness measurement was drawn on an elastogram with confidence mapping. The spleen stiffness was 6.63 kPa.