Steve Bandula1,
Sanjay Banypersad2, Daniel Sado2, Stuart Taylor1,
Shonit Punwani1, James Moon2
1Centre
for Medical Imaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom; 2The
Heart Hospital, University College London Hospital , London, United Kingdom
Equilibrium MRI (EQ-MRI) is a new technique that can quantify extracellular volume fraction and has been used to measure diffuse myocardial fibrosis. In this study, EQ-MRI is utilized to define the extracellular volume within healthy abdominal organs and demonstrate a significant increase in tissue ECV in patients with amyloidosis a disease defined by extracellular deposition of abnormal proteins.
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