Current State-of-the-Art MRI for Comprehensive Evaluation of Potential Living Liver Donors.
OBJECTIVE
This review focuses on the role of state-of-the-art MRI-based techniques for comprehensive evaluation of living donors providing single-visit assessment of the liver vasculature via MR angiography, of the biliary tract via conventional T2-weighted MR cholangiography and T1-weighted gadoxetate disodium-enhanced MR cholangiography, and of hepatic steatosis via T2*-corrected multiecho chemical shift-based water-fat separation MRI and high-speed T2-corrected multiecho MR spectroscopy.


CONCLUSIONS
By using current state-of-the-art techniques, MRI can provide a one-stop-shop method for evaluation of the potential living liver donors.
1 Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, University of Toronto, 610 University Ave, 3-957, Toronto, ON M5G 2M9, Canada.
Kartik S
KS
Jhaveri
1 Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, University of Toronto, 610 University Ave, 3-957, Toronto, ON M5G 2M9, Canada.
Lijun
L
Guo
1 Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, University of Toronto, 610 University Ave, 3-957, Toronto, ON M5G 2M9, Canada.
Luís
L
Guimarães
D049448:Cholangiopancreatography, Magnetic Resonance; D003287:Contrast Media; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
D003287:Contrast Media
MRI; biliary anatomy; hepatic steatosis; hepatic vasculature; liver transplant; living donor