Iron mapping using the temperature dependency of the magnetic susceptibility

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1282-1288

  Birkl, Christoph ^a   Langkammer, Christian ^a   Krenn, Heinz ^b   Goessler, Walter ^b   Ernst, Christina ^a   Haybaeck, Johannes ^a   Stollberger, Rudolf ^c   Fazekas, Franz ^a   Ropele, Stefan ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Curie constant; Curie's law; Iron in white matter; Iron quantification; Magnetic susceptibility; MRI and temperature; SQUID

Indexed keywords

DIAMAGNETISM; IRON; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETOMETRY; MAPPING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLLUSCS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PARAMAGNETISM; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; SHELLFISH; SQUIDS;

CURIE CONSTANT; CURIE'S LAW; DIAMAGNETIC CONTRIBUTIONS; PARAMAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES; WHITE MATTER;

TEMPERATURE;

IRON;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; BRAIN TISSUE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM DEVICE MAGNETOMETRY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WHITE MATTER; ALGORITHM; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CADAVER; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRON; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84923133203     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25236     Document Type: Article

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