Session 12: Advances in Hepatobiliary Imaging - Oral presentationHepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) occurs during liver transplantation, tumor resection, hemorrhagic shock and veno-occlusive disease, and is a major cause of acute liver failure. IRI in liver is also responsible for early organ failure and increased incidence of both acute and chronic rejection after liver transplantation. This study aims to examine the changes of diffusion measurements by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). The experimental results demonstrated that DTI is useful in identifying hepatic IRI by characterizing the transient changes in mean diffusivity and fractional anisotropy.published_or_final_versionThe 17th Scientific Meeting & Exhibition of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Honolulu, HI., 18-24 April 2009. In Proceedings of ISMRM 17th Scientific Meeting & Exhibition, 2009, p. 11
