Open AccessComplex confounder-corrected R2* mapping for liver iron quantification with MRI
Author(s) -
Diego Hernando,
Rachel J. Cook,
Naila Qazi,
Colin A. Longhurst,
Carol Diamond,
Scott B. Reeder
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
european radiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.606
H-Index - 149
eISSN - 1432-1084
pISSN - 0938-7994
DOI - 10.1007/s00330-020-07123-x
Subject(s) - reproducibility , medicine , neuroradiology , calibration , nuclear medicine , radiology , interventional radiology , confounding , pathology , statistics , neurology , mathematics , psychiatry
MRI-based R2* mapping may enable reliable and rapid quantification of liver iron concentration (LIC). However, the performance and reproducibility of R2* across acquisition protocols remain unknown. Therefore, the objective of this work was to evaluate the performance and reproducibility of complex confounder-corrected R2* across acquisition protocols, at both 1.5 T and 3.0 T.