Real‐time monitoring of radiofrequency ablation of rabbit liver by respiratory‐gated quantitative temperature MRI

To evaluate the feasibility and precision of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) thermometry for monitoring radiofrequency (RF) liver ablation in vivo and predicting the size of the ablation zone.

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