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Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
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From: Hepatic magnetic resonance elastography: can it be an alternative to invasive biopsy preceding living donor liver transplantation?

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a–d Demonstrates MRE sequence images of a 37-year-old apparently normal LLD candidate with mild hepatic steatosis of grade S1a and the estimated mean stiffness of the liver was 2.33 kPa. The obtained MRE sequence images include the conventional anatomical reference image of MRE single slice (a) and the corresponding shear wave images (b), as well as the color-coded confidence map images with 0–8 kPa and 0–20 kPa (c, d, respectively). The conventional anatomical reference image (a) reveals apparently normal hepatic tissue, while the analysis of the corresponding color-coded shear wave image (b) show slightly wide, and longer wave length of the liver, particularly in the right hepatic lobe (the arrows in b image). Moreover, the color-coded confidence maps with 0–8 kPa and 0–20 kPa (c and d, respectively), display mainly blue color with green foci (c), as well as, mainly purple color with blue foci (d). According to the corresponding color bars, these colors represent relatively increased tissue stiffness with the mean estimated stiffness values of the liver in the ROIs, on confidence maps (red and yellow rings on c and d images, respectively), was 2.30 kPa (stiffness of grade S1a steatosis). Moreover, the liver biopsy confirmed these findings

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