Abstract #1760

IRON MEASUREMENTS BY QUANTITATIVE MRI-R2* AT 3.0 AND 1.5 T IN COMPARISON TO SQUID BIOMAGNETIC LIVER SUSCEPTOMETRY (BLS)

Jin Yamamura¹, Björn Schönnagel¹, Sarah Keller², Christoph Berliner¹, Enver Tahir¹, Regine Grosse³, Zhiyue Jerry Wang⁴, Gerhard Adam¹, and Roland Fischer^1,5

¹Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, ²Radiology, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany, ³Haemato-Oncology, University Medical Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, ⁴University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States, ⁵UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA, United States

In this study the suitability of a 3.0 T imager for iron measurements over the whole range of possible iron concentrations in the liver and other organs or glands is investigated. For this purpose the results on liver iron is compared for the feasibility of 3.0T to both 1.5T MRI and SQUID BLS.

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