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Vascular assessment of liver disease - towards a new frontier in MRI

Chouhan, MD; Lythgoe, MF; Mookerjee, RP; Taylor, SA; (2016) Vascular assessment of liver disease - towards a new frontier in MRI. British Journal of Radiology , 89 (1064) , Article 20150675. 10.1259/bjr.20150675. Green open access

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Abstract

Complex haemodynamic phenomena underpin the pathophysiology of chronic liver disease. Non-invasive MRI-based assessment of hepatic vascular parameters therefore has the potential to yield meaningful biomarkers for chronic liver disease. In this review, we provide an overview of vascular sequelae of chronic liver disease amenable to imaging evaluation and describe the current supportive evidence, strengths and the limitations of MRI methodologies, including dynamic contrast-enhanced, dynamic hepatocyte-specific contrast-enhanced, phase-contrast, arterial spin labelling and MR elastography in the assessment of hepatic vascular parameters. We review the broader challenges of quantitative hepatic vascular MRI, including the difficulties of motion artefact, complex post-processing, long acquisition times, validation and limitations of pharmacokinetic models, alongside the potential solutions that will shape the future of MRI and deliver this new frontier to the patient bedside.

Type: Article
Title: Vascular assessment of liver disease - towards a new frontier in MRI
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20150675
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20150675
Language: English
Additional information: © 2016 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Department of Imaging
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Experimental and Translational Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Inst for Liver and Digestive Hlth
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1493067
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