Jiachen Ji1, Changchun Liu2, Yunduo Li1, Mingzhu Fu1, Jinghui Dong2, Jianming Cai2, Chunsheng Chi3, Bo Jin3, Wen Shen4, Xiaolong Qi5, and Rui Li1
1Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2Department of Radiology, The Fifth Medical Centre of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, Beijing, China, 3First Liver Cirrhosis Diagnosis and Treatment Center, The Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, Beijing, China, 4Department of Radiology, First Center Hospital of Tianjin, Tianjin, China, Tianjin, China, 5CHESS Center, Institute of Portal Hypertension, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, Lanzhou, China
1Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2Department of Radiology, The Fifth Medical Centre of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, Beijing, China, 3First Liver Cirrhosis Diagnosis and Treatment Center, The Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, Beijing, China, 4Department of Radiology, First Center Hospital of Tianjin, Tianjin, China, Tianjin, China, 5CHESS Center, Institute of Portal Hypertension, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, Lanzhou, China
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this study, we identified the reproducibility of the processing and quantifying
procedure of 4D Flow MRI, discovered hemodynamic difference between portal
hypertension (PH) patients and volunteers, and utilized 4D Flow MRI to help diagnose
PH and evaluate the risk of variceal bleeding.
Figure 1. Visualization of the Blood Flow (left)
and the Plane/Contour Used for the Quantification of the Blood Flow (right)
Figure 3. Using Hemodynamic Parameters to
Help Stratify the Risk of Variceal Bleeding: Normalized Flowcyc (left)
and Vavg (right)