David H. Gultekin1, Nancy E. Kemeny2, Lawrence H. Schwartz3, Mithat Gonen4, Michael I. D'Angelica5, Peter J. Allen5, Yuman Fong5, Leslie H. Blumgart5, Ronald P. DeMatteo5, William R. Jarnagin5
1Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States; 2Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States; 3Radiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States; 4Epidemiology-Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States; 5Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States
Age related changes in perfusion and vascular permeability characteristics of the liver tissue have been investigated using dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI). Correlation statistics are performed between the age and several DCE-MRI parameters for subsets of gender and type for a group of primary liver cancer patients.