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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Hepatol. 2011 Jan 21;55(3):666–672. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2010.12.019

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Reconstructed shear moduli in 135 patients being evaluated for NAFLD as a function of their biopsy-proven fibrosis stage. The boxes represent the interquartile range (IQR), while the whiskers represent 1.5 times the respective IQR level over the mean stiffnesses for each study subject (the mean of 3 replicate measures in the 3 imaging locations with an IQR/mean < 0.3). The number of study subjects for each fibrosis stage is indicated in parentheses. The horizontal dashed line represents the threshold (4.24 kPa) to distinguish fibrosis stages F0–2 from F3–4.