Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 135-140, February 2009

Noninvasive Assessment of Hepatic Steatosis

  • Sameer M. Mazhar

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
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  • Masoud Shiehmorteza

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
    • ,
  • Claude B. Sirlin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Claude B. Sirlin, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology In Residence, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, 408 E Dickinson St, San Diego, CA 92103. fax: 619-471-0503

published online 05 December 2008.

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    •  The authors disclose the following: Supported by National Institutes of Health grants R01 DK075128 and U01 DK061734 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; T32 Gastroenterology Training Grant; and P60 MD00220 from the San Diego EXPORT Center, National Center of Minority Health and Health Disparities. The contents of this work are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

     Dr Sirlin has a research grant from General Electric.

    PII: S1542-3565(08)01196-8

    doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2008.11.023

    Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
    Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 135-140, February 2009