Abstract #0579

Quantification of Susceptibility Mapping with Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Iron Mapping

Weili Zheng¹, E Mark Haacke¹, Saifeng Liu², Jaladhar Neelavalli³, Helen Nichol⁴

¹Radiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA; ²School of Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; ³The Magnetic Resonance Imaging Institute for Biomedical Research, Detroit, MI, USA; ⁴Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI) has been widely accepted as an in vivo neuroimaging technique for monitoring neurologic disorders with iron-related susceptibility changes. We assumed that ferritin was the dominant iron species in putamen and caudate and estimated the relationship between SWIM susceptibility and iron concentration, for the first time on a voxel by voxel basis. This provides a major advance in noninvasive and safe estimation of iron in human brain tissue in vivo using susceptibility mapping.