Iron overload represents critical health problem in children with regular transfusional therapy. Breath hold T2* mapping is widely used for the iron quantification, but it is not always feasible in pre-school children without the sedation. We purpose the free breath T2* mapping for the quick monitoring of treatment response to the chelation therapy in pediatric patients.The purposed method demonstrate that free breath T2* mapping is more convenient for the iron quantification in children according to lack of limited by breath hold technique and provides much higher quality images.
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