Fig. 4.

An 81-year-old woman with a hypovascular, hypointense nodule on hepatocyte imaging of EOB-MRI (yellow arrows). A nodule of 12-mm in size was demonstrated showing hypovascularity (lack of arterial flow) on hepatic arterial-dominant phase imaging (a) and hypointensity on hepatocyte imaging (b) on the initial EOB-MRI examination. These findings are typical for an early (hypovascular) HCC. On follow-up hepatic arterial-dominant phase imaging of EOB-MRI (c), obtained three years after the initial EOB-MRI examination, early contrast-enhancement appeared within the nodule.