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Application and progress of magnetic resonance elastography in kidney and prostate diseases
YANG Jiao  WU Hui  GAO Kaihua  HU He  ZHANG Tong 

Cite this article as: YANG J, WU H, GAO K H, et al. Application and progress of magnetic resonance elastography in kidney and prostate diseases[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2023, 14(11): 188-192. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.11.032.


[Abstract] Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), as a hot imaging technique for non-invasive evaluation of soft tissue mechanical characteristics, has shown good clinical value in the early diagnosis of renal diseases, monitoring of renal dysfunction, differential diagnosis of benign and malignant renal tumors, and detection , differential diagnosis and preoperative risk assessment of prostate cancer in recent years. This article reviews the imaging principle of MRE and the application of MRE in kidney diseases and prostate diseases at present, aiming to understand the application status and progress of MRE in the above diseases, and to provide reference for the research and development of MRE in related fields in the future.
[Keywords] chronic kidney diseases；transplant kidney；renal tumor；prostate cancer；magnetic resonance elastography；magnetic resonance imaging

YANG Jiao   WU Hui*   GAO Kaihua   HU He   ZHANG Tong  

Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot 010050, China

Corresponding author: WU H, E-mail: terrywuhui@sina.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

Received  2023-06-28
Accepted  2023-09-25
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.11.032
Cite this article as: YANG J, WU H, GAO K H, et al. Application and progress of magnetic resonance elastography in kidney and prostate diseases[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2023, 14(11): 188-192. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.11.032.

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