MR Elastography in Renal Transplant Patients: A Feasibility Study

Christine U. Lee¹, Kevin J. Glaser¹, James F. Glockner¹, Meng Yin¹, Jun Chen¹, Richard L. Ehman¹

MR elastography (MRE) of renal transplants was performed on eleven patients scheduled for routine core-needle biopsies of their allografts. Feasibility of performing MRE on renal allografts is demonstrated and preliminary thoughts on correlation of MRE-derived stiffness values with histopathology is made.