Universal Liver Imaging Lexicon: Imaging Atlas for Research and Clinical Practice

Kathryn J Fowler1, Mustafa R Bashir1, David T Fetzer1

  • 1From the Liver Imaging Group, Department of Radiology, UC San Diego, San Diego, Calif (K.J.F., C.B.S.); Department of Radiology, Duke University Health System, Durham, NC (M.R.B.); Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Tex (D.T.F.); Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa, Japan (A.Kitao); Department of Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (J.M.L.); Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (H.J.); Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (A.Z.K.); Department of Radiology, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, and Department of Radiology, Hôpital Beaujon, APHP.Nord, Clichy, France (M.R.); Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif (A.Kamaya); Department of Radiology, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, Calif (R.M.M.); Department of Radiology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md (R.M.M.); Department of Radiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Tex (K.M.E.); Department of Radiology, Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada (A.T.); and Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065 (V.C.).

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