Myocardial T2 quantitation in patients with iron overload at 3 Tesla

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 394-400

  Guo, Hua ^a,b   Au, Wing Yan ^a   Cheung, Jerry S ^a   Kim, Daniel ^b   Jensen, Jens H ^b   Khong, Pek Lan ^a   Chan, Queenie ^c   Chan, Kevin C ^a   Tosti, Christina ^d   Tang, Haiying ^d   Brown, Truman R ^d   Lam, Wynnie W M ^e   Ha, Shau Yin ^a   Brittenham, Gary M ^d   Wu, Ed X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^e Hong Kong Health Check and Laboratory Holdings Company Limited   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cardiac MR; Heart; Iron overload; Liver; MRI; T2; T2*; Thalassemia; Tissue iron

Indexed keywords

DEFERASIROX; DEFERIPRONE; DEFEROXAMINE; IRON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THALASSEMIA MAJOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IRON OVERLOAD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THALASSEMIA;

EID: 68049142606     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21851     Document Type: Article

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