Identification of Hepatic Fibrosis Using 4D-MRI

Novel MR-imaging (MRI) and postprocessing techniques, making it possible to capture breathing-induced abdominal motion, including liver motion, under free-breathing. For the first time, these techniques - called 4D-MRI - were able to capture the abdominal organs with high spatial resolution in 3-dimensions at a high frame rate of 2-3 Hz and enabled an entirely new insight into the human body.