Abstract #3931
            Change of Venous Susceptibility upon Visual Activation: 3D Multi-echo GRE vs. GRE-EPI Functional QSM
                      PINAR SENAY ZBAY                     1,2                    , Cristina Rossi                     1                    , 						Geoffrey Warnock                     3                    , Felix Kuhn                     3                    , 						Klaas Paul Prssmann                     2                    , and Daniel Nanz                     1          
            
            1
           
           Department of Radiology, University Hospital 
						Zrich, Zrich, Switzerland,
           
            2
           
           Institute 
						of Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zrich, Zrich, 
						Switzerland,
           
            3
           
           Department 
						of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Zrich, Zrich, 
						Switzerland
          
            
          This study compared BOLD- and QSM-based neuronal 
						activation patterns and changes of venous magnetic 
						susceptibility under visual-stimulation as observed in 
						data acquired with (i) traditional repeated fast 
						whole-brain covering 2D GRE-EPI scans versus with (ii) 
						single 3D-GRE scans. T-score-maps from statistical 
						parametric mapping of the EPI-acquired fQSM 
						time-series-data and difference maps (ON-OFF) for both 
						EPI-fQSM and 3D-GRE-fQSM are presented. Image quality of 
						3D-GRE-fQSM and its difference-map were superior to 
						corresponding EPI-QSM data. 3D-GRE-fQSM detected larger 
						reduction of venous magnetic susceptibility upon visual 
						stimulation than EPI-fQSM. 3D-GRE-fQSM might have a 
						potential for studies with a focus on the venous vessel 
						tree.
         
				
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