Optimized imaging of the lower abdomen and pelvic region in hepatocyte-specific MRI: evaluation of a whole-abdomen first-pass shuttle protocol in patients with neuroendocrine neoplasms

Acta Radiol. 2019 Sep;60(9):1074-1083. doi: 10.1177/0284185118817936. Epub 2018 Dec 12.

Authors

Uli Fehrenbach¹, Johannes Kahn¹, Ute Fahlenkamp¹, Alexander Baur^{1

2}, Marianne Pavel^{3

4}, Dominik Geisel¹, Timm Denecke^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ 1 Klinik für Radiologie, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
² 2 Bereich klinische Nuklearmedizin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
³ 3 Medizinische Klinik m.S. Hepatologie und Gastroenterologie, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ 4 Medizinische Klinik, Endokrinologie, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.

PMID: 30541328
DOI: 10.1177/0284185118817936

No abstract available

Keywords: Abdomen/GI; liver; magnetic resonance imaging; pelvis; staging; technical aspects.

MeSH terms

Abdomen / diagnostic imaging
Abdominal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Cohort Studies
Contrast Media
Female
Gadolinium DTPA
Hepatocytes*
Humans
Image Enhancement / methods
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
Male
Middle Aged
Neuroendocrine Tumors / diagnostic imaging*
Pelvic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Pelvis / diagnostic imaging
Retrospective Studies

Substances

Contrast Media
gadolinium ethoxybenzyl DTPA
Gadolinium DTPA