title: Magnetic resonance enterography in Crohn's disease: Standard and advanced techniques.
abstract: Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic autoimmune disorder that affects mainly young people. The clinical management is based on the Crohn's Disease Activity Index and especially on biologic parameters with or without additional endoscopic and imaging procedures, such as barium and computed tomography examinations. Recently, magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has been a promising diagnostic radiologic technique with lack of ionizing radiation, enabling superior tissue contrast resolution due to new pulse-sequence developments. Therefore, MR enterography has the potential to become the modality of choice for imaging the small bowel in CD patients.
authors.affiliation: Arda Kayhan, Jacob Oommen, Farid Dahi, Aytekin Oto, Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, United States.
authors.forename: Arda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kayhan
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oommen
authors.forename: Farid
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dahi
authors.forename: Aytekin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oto