Ultrasound-based techniques for the diagnosis of liver steatosis

Figure 1 Intercostal scan of the right lobe of the liver, obtained with the Aplio i800 ultrasound system equipped with the ATI^® technique. The color-coded map, which is overlaid on the B-mode image, and the B-mode image without colors are shown side-by-side on the monitor of the ultrasound system. The inner rectangle is the fixed measurement box. The reliability of the result is displayed by the R² value.