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  • Radiology and Medical Imaging
  • Hepatology
  • Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers

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  • Diffuse and focal liver diseases require accurate anatomical and functional assessment.
  • Current imaging modalities offer complementary information for liver disease evaluation.
  • Need for advanced imaging techniques to improve diagnostic performance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review advanced ultrasonography and MR imaging methods for liver disease assessment.
  • To highlight the role of quantitative imaging biomarkers in characterizing liver conditions.
  • To discuss the potential of multiparametric imaging in improving diagnostic accuracy.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized advanced ultrasonography techniques, including ultrasound elastography and dynamic contrast-enhanced ultrasonography.
  • Employed advanced MR imaging techniques, such as diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and dynamic MR imaging with contrast agents.
  • Incorporated quantitative parameters from MR elastography (MRE) and other advanced MR sequences.

Main Results:

  • Ultrasound elastography is crucial for staging liver fibrosis and grading portal hypertension.
  • Dynamic contrast-enhanced ultrasonography aids in liver tumor characterization.
  • Quantitative MR parameters from DWI, dynamic MRI, and MRE provide insights into tissue cellularity, perfusion, and viscoelasticity.

Conclusions:

  • Multiparametric ultrasonography and MR imaging offer high diagnostic performance for liver diseases by combining imaging biomarkers.
  • Quantitative imaging parameters enhance the characterization of both diffuse and focal liver pathologies.
  • Further standardization and multicenter validation of image acquisition and post-processing are essential for widespread clinical adoption.