title: A magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) approach for liver investigation.
abstract: Due to its key role in carbohydrate metabolisation, blood detoxification, filtering and substance storing, liver is prone to a wide variety of diseases: hepatitis, cirrhosis, cancer. As such, liver investigation is a major field of interest. We describe here a non invasive way to obtain important information on liver elasticity properties. In vitro Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) experiments are realized using a normalized substance (Agar gel in different concentrations) and this technique is also demonstrated in the context of an in vivo investigation of the elastic properties of a normal control liver.
authors.affiliation: Département de RMN et imagerie optique, Creatis LRMN, UMR CNRS 5220, INSERM U 630, ESCPE, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France. denis.grenier@univ-lyon1.fr
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Grenier
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Milot
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pilleul
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Beuf
mesh_terms: D000362:Agar; D054459:Elasticity Imaging Techniques; D005782:Gels; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging
chemical_list: D005782:Gels; D000362:Agar