Assessment of radiofrequency ablation margin by MRI-MRI image fusion in hepatocellular carcinoma
Xiao-Li Wang, Kai Li, Zhong-Zhen Su, Ze-Ping Huang, Ping Wang, Rong-Qin Zheng
Xiao-Li Wang, Kai Li, Zhong-Zhen Su, Ze-Ping Huang, Ping Wang, Rong-Qin Zheng, Department of Ultrasound, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, Guangdong Province, China
Author contributions: Wang XL and Li K contributed equally to this work; Wang XL, Li K, Su ZZ, Huang ZP, Wang P and Zheng RQ designed the study; Wang XL, Li K, Su ZZ, Huang ZP and Wang P performed the research and analyzed the data; Wang XL and Li K wrote the paper; and Zheng RQ supervised the study.
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81271669, No. 81430038 and No. 81301931.
Ethics approval: The study was reviewed and approved by the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Institutional Review Board.
Informed consent: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest: No conflict of interest.
Data sharing: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Rong-Qin Zheng, PhD, Department of Ultrasound, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, No. 600 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou 510630, Guangdong Province, China.
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Received: October 26, 2014
Peer-review started: October 29, 2014
First decision: November 14, 2014
Revised: December 6, 2014
Accepted: February 11, 2015
Article in press: February 11, 2015
Published online: May 7, 2015
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