Fig 1.
The outlines of regions of interest to obtain the liver lobe based T2* values.
In a 51-year-old male with Child-Pugh Class C of liver cirrhosis, three regions of interest are randomly drawn in right liver lobe in a representative axial plane by the software to obtain the T2* value of this liver lobe, and the similar methods are used to obtain the T2* values of the other liver lobes.
Table 1.
Interobserver and intraobserver variability of liver lobe based T2* value in cirrhotic patients.
Table 2.
Main parameters of the healthy participants and patients with cirrhosis in different Child-Pugh classes.
Fig 2.
Receiver operating characteristic curves of liver lobe based T2* values to identify the presence and Child-Pugh class of cirrhosis in patients with hepatitis B.
The figures show that T2* value of left medial liver lobe (LML), left lateral liver lobe (LLL), and right liver lobe (RL) are indicators for the discrimination between cirrhosis patients and healthy participants (A), and between Class C and healthy participants (B), and between Child-Pugh class A-B and C of cirrhosis (C).
Table 3.
Liver lobe based T2* value in determining the presence and Child-Pugh class of cirrhosis.