•104 subjects were recruited and collected alcohol history, BMI, hypertension, blood glucose, blood lipids, uric acid, transaminase, and so on.
•To explore the diagnostic value and the quantitative analysis of liver fat from mild to moderate fatty liver with FibroTouch, choosing MRI IDEAL-IQ sequence as the criterion.
•Total of 104 subjects were recruited, the male-to-female ratio was 2.47: 1, the average age was 41.55 ± 12.24, and the fat attenuation parameter was 288.24 ± 5.07dB/m.
•The number of patients were diagnosed as fatty liver moderate or severe fatty liver patients severe patients by FibroTouch was 82, 66 and 50 respectively. The detection rates were 78.85%, 64.46% and 48.08% respectively.
•The number of patients were diagnosed as fatty liver moderate or severe fatty liver patients severe patients by MRI IDEAL-IQ was 82, 52 and 10 respectively. The detection rate was 78.85%, 50.00%, 9.62%.
•Compared with the ROC curve of MRI IDEAL-IQ, the area under the curve of ROC were 0.956, 0.956, 0.839, all P values were < 0.01.
•FibroTouch is the most economical and reproducible noninvasive method of examination, and is expected to be the preferred method of screening for fatty liver screening and treatment.
