Yongming Dai1, Daoying Gen2,
Jiani Hu3, E.M. Haacke3
1Siemens Ltd China, Healthcare,
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Shanghai, China; 2Fudan University
affiliated Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, China; 3Wayne State
University, United States
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this study, susceptibility weighted imaging has been extended from human
brain to abdomen for iron deposition research of hepatic diseases. From the
inital result, susceptibility weighted imaging could correlate the degree of
hepatic iron overloaded of patients with their clinical examination results
well. It seems that susceptibility weighted imaging will be a promising
method alternative to conventional T2, T2star methods for iron deposition
research.