Abstract #2360

Investigating the Clinical Potential of Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) - Initial Results in Pediatric Patients

Ferdinand Schweser¹, Martin Stenzel², Andreas Deistung¹, Karsten Sommer¹, Hans-Joachim Mentzel², Jrgen Rainer Reichenbach¹

¹Medical Physics Group, Dept. of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology I, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany; ²Section Pediatric Radiology, Dept. of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology I, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is a novel imaging technique that employs the complex-phase of conventional gradient-echo sequences to obtain quantitative maps of bulk tissue magnetic susceptibility. Although QSM is currently regarded as the successor of the well-established Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI) technique, only few studies have hitherto investigated the potential of applying QSM to pathologic conditions in a clinical scenario, thus impressing the perception of QSM being a research tool only so far. This paper presents initial results of applying QSM in routine pediatric neuroradiology to demonstrate the impressive potential of this novel imaging technique.