Quantification of Hepatic Iron Concentration in Chronic Viral Hepatitis: Usefulness of T2-weighted Single-Shot Spin-Echo Echo-Planar MR Imaging

• Tatsuyuki Tonan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tatsuyuki Tonan, Kiminori Fujimoto

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume University Hospital, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Kiminori Fujimoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tatsuyuki Tonan, Kiminori Fujimoto

  * E-mail: kimichan@med.kurume-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume University Hospital, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan, Center for Diagnostic Imaging, Kurume University Hospital, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Aliya Qayyum,

  Affiliation Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Takumi Kawaguchi,

  Affiliation Department of Digestive Disease Information & Research and Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Atsushi Kawaguchi,

  Affiliation Biostatics Center, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Osamu Nakashima,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Kurume University Hospital, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Koji Okuda,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Naofumi Hayabuchi,

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume University Hospital, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Michio Sata

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

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