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Jeeyoung Min1, Hee Sun Park1, Young Jun Kim1

  • 1Department of Radiology, Konkuk University School of Medicine, 120-1, Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05030, Republic of Korea.

Clinical Imaging
|February 16, 2018
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Keywords:
CirrhosisHepatic steatosisMagnetic resonance imagingMagnetic resonance spectroscopyMulti-echo Dixon

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