Noninvasive liver-iron measurements with a room-temperature susceptometer

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 349-361

  Avrin, William F ^a   Kumar, Sankaran ^b  

^a Insight Magnetics   (United States)

^b GE Security   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomagnetic; Biomagnetism; Hepatic iron; Iron overload; Liver iron; Noninvasive measurement; SQUID; Susceptometer; Susceptometry

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MOLLUSCS; SHELLFISH; SQUIDS; SUPERCONDUCTING COILS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; THERMAL EXPANSION;

BIOMAGNETIC; HEPATIC IRON; IRON OVERLOADS; LIQUID HELIUM; LIVER IRON; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY MEASUREMENTS; NON- INVASIVE MEASUREMENTS; SUSCEPTOMETERS; SUSCEPTOMETRY; SYSTEM USE;

IRON;

IRON;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEAT TREATMENT; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON OVERLOAD; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OSCILLATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SUPERCONDUCTOR; SUSCEPTOMETER; THALASSEMIA; WETTABILITY;

EID: 34047197935     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/28/4/002     Document Type: Article

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