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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 18 Advances in imaging of liver fibrosis [Keywords:] liver fibrosis, ultrasound, radionuclide, computed tomography, magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted imaging China is a country of high incidence of hepatitis B, the incidence of liver cancer accounts for about 45% of the world. Is well known that hepatitis B cirrhosis → → → liver fibrosis is a progressive development of the pathological process, how to Early diagnosis of liver fibrosis, effectively blocking or interfering with the process of liver fibrosis, the current research is a hot and difficult, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, CT, MRI and other non-invasive imaging tools to make the early diagnosis of liver fibrosis and staging is to carry out effective intervention and treatment of the premise. In this paper, various imaging methods, particularly in the diagnosis of liver fibrosis in DWI studies reviewed in this paper. Ultrasonography Liver fibrosis in the liver cell necrosis and inflammation, based on the occurrence of liver fibrous connective tissue dysplasia in the pathological process. With this increased pathological changes, and further can cause abnormal liver morphology, increased spleen and portal vein collaterals circulation of such secondary changes. At this point, two-dimensional ultrasound can be expressed as hepatic parenchymal echo uneven, rough, and changes in real echo nodular abnormalities, liver capsule can also be found irregular or wavy, blunt liver edge, intrahepatic portal vein became thinner and thicker, collateral vessels increased, gallbladder wall thickening, enlarged spleen and other indirect performance. These can be regarded as the diagnosis of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis of the objective indicators [1]. Zheng et al [2] Evaluation by ultrasound of 44 that the liver surface echo, echo liver and gallbladder wall thickness these three indicators, and could predict liver fibrosis as the most valuable information, and portal vein velocity and