Assessment of Liver Function With MRI: Where Do We Stand?

Carolina Río Bártulos¹, Karin Senk², Mona Schumacher³, Jan Plath³, Nico Kaiser³, Ragnar Bade³, Jan Woetzel³, Philipp Wiggermann¹

¹Institut für Röntgendiagnostik und Nuklearmedizin, Städtisches Klinikum Braunschweig gGmbH, Braunschweig, Germany.

²Institut für Röntgendiagnostik, Universtitätsklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

³MeVis Medical Solutions AG, Bremen, Germany.

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Abstract

Liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have become a global health burden. For this reason, the determination of liver function plays a central role in the monitoring of patients with chronic liver disease or HCC. Furthermore, assessment of liver function is important, e.g., before surgery to prevent liver failure after hepatectomy or to monitor the course of treatment. Liver function an…

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