Liver stiffness assessment with tagged MRI of cardiac‐induced liver motion in cirrhosis patients

To assess liver stiffness using magnetization‐tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure the cardiac‐induced motion in the liver of cirrhosis patients with known Child‐Pugh scores.

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