title: Hepatic imaging: comparison of modalities.
abstract: This article describes a number of aspects of liver imaging, including the main reasons for imaging of the liver; the current status and recent developments of ultrasound, CT, MR imaging, and PET; and the role of these imaging modalities in the assessment of hepatic abnormalities. Finally, a systematic review of the current relevant literature on studies that compare modalities is presented, and a strategy for the work-up of liver diseases is proposed.
authors.affiliation: Section of Abdominal Imaging, Department of Radiology, Erasmus MC, Dr. Molewaterplein 40, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands. s.hussain@erasmusmc.nl
authors.forename: Shahid M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Hussain
authors.forename: Richard C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Semelka
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography