The effect of reducing repetition time TR on the measurement of liver R2 for the purpose of measuring liver iron concentration

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1346-1351

  Pavitt, Helen L ^a,b   Aydinok, Yesim ^c   El Beshlawy, Amal ^d   Bayraktaroglu, Selen ^c   Ibrahim, Ahmed S ^e   Hamdy, Mona M ^d   Pang, Wenjie ^b   Sharples, Christopher ^b   St Pierre, Timothy G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Resonance Health Ltd   (Australia)

^c EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^d CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^e AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

iron overload; liver iron concentration; magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADJUSTMENT FACTORS; DRY TISSUES; IRON CONCENTRATIONS; IRON OVERLOADS; PULSE REPETITION; REPETITION TIME; SPIN DENSITIES;

IRON;

IRON;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRON LIVER LEVEL; LIVER LEVEL; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULSE REPETITION TIME; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REPEAT PROCEDURE;

EID: 79954605536     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22712     Document Type: Article

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