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All participants underwent upper abdominal MRI examinations using the MR mDixon-Quant sequence on a Philips 1.5 T Ingenia MRI device with an 8-channel phased-array body coil (Philips Healthcare Nederland B.V., Best, Netherlands). The MR mDixon-Quant sequence parameters in our unit were as follows: TR (Repetition Time) shortest: 5.3 ms, FOV (Field of View): 400352231 mm, matrix size: 132*116, reconstruction matrix size: 192, bandwidth: 2869.4 Hz, flip angle: 5º, slice thickness: 3 mm, and approximately 77 slices were used. The sequence duration was around 17 seconds with a single breath-holding period. Six different TE (Echo Time) values were employed during the acquisition.
All measurements of the patients were performed on the workstation (IntelliSpace Portal, Philips v6.03.13200; Philips Healthcare Nederland B.V., Best, Netherlands) using quadruple images consisting of fat value, water value, fat percentage, and T2* (Fig. 1). A region of interest (ROI) measuring 4 cm² was placed on the liver’s right lobe segment 5–6, avoiding large vessels (Fig. 1). The measurements were conducted blindly by a senior radiology specialist based on the ultrasonographic stages. Previously, following the values specified for each histological steatosis grade according to liver fat percentages in Tang et al.’s study, the patients were staged.^{[18 (link),19 (link)]}