Abstract #1246

Preliminary Application Researches of Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping in Evaluating the Osteoporosis

Xintao Zhang¹, Yihao Guo², Yanjun Chen¹, Yingjie Mei³, Yanqiu Feng², and Xiaodong Zhang¹

¹Department of Medical Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, ²School of Biomedical Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Image Processing, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, ³Philips Healthcare, Guangzhou, China

The purpose of this work was to explore the clinical application of quantitative susceptibility mapping（QSM）using an ultrashort echo time (UTE) gradient echo (GRE) sequence in evaluating the bone mineral density（BMD）of lumbar vertebra by analyzing the correlation between QSM and quantitative computed tomography (QCT). Our results showed that there was strong correlation between QSM and QCT. QSM has the potential to be a biomarker providing new insights into osteoporosis.

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