Use of fat suppression in R2 relaxometry with MRI for the quantification of tissue iron overload in beta-thalassemic patients

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 926-933

  Papakonstantinou, Olympia ^a   Foufa, Kostantina ^a   Benekos, Odysseas ^a   Alexopoulou, Efthymia ^a   Mademli, Maria ^a   Balanika, Alexia ^a   Economopoulos, Nikos ^a   Kelekis, Nikolaos L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fat suppression; Iron overload; MRI; R2 relaxometry; Thalassemia

Indexed keywords

DEFERIPRONE; DEFEROXAMINE; FERRITIN; IRON; LIPID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BETA THALASSEMIA; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW HEMOSIDEROSIS; BREATHING MECHANICS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FAT SUPPRESSION; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IRON CHELATION; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER; LIVER HEMOSIDEROSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS; PANCREAS HEMOSIDEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RELAXOMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLEEN; SPLEEN HEMOSIDEROSIS; SPLENECTOMY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERTEBRA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; IRON; IRON OVERLOAD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864017879     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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