Han, Aiguo
Labyed, Yassin
Sy, Ethan Z.
Boehringer, Andrew S.
Andre, Michael P.
Erdman, John W. Jr
Loomba, Rohit
Sirlin, Claude B.
O’Brien, William D. Jr
Article History
Received: 20 March 2018
Revised: 27 April 2018
Accepted: 14 May 2018
First Online: 4 June 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Claude B. Sirlin, MD (University of California at San Diego).
: The authors of this manuscript declare relationships with the following companies:One of the authors (YL) is an employee of Siemens Healthineers USA. The work is supported in part by a research grant from Siemens Healthineers USA. The use of the Siemens S3000 scanner was loaned to the University of California San Diego under a research agreement with Siemens Healthineers USA. At all times, the study data was under the control of the other authors, none of whom are employees of Siemens.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: Institutional review board approval was obtained.
: • prospective• cross-sectional study• performed at one institution