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Abstract #2357

An Atlas-Based Variational Approach to Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping

Clare Poynton1, Elfar Adalsteinsson2, 3, Edith V. Sullivan4, Adolf Pfefferbaum4, William Wells III5

1Health Sciences and Technology , Harvard - MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States; 2Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States; 3 Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard - MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States; 4Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States; 5Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

Quantifying magnetic susceptibility in the brain from the phase of the MR signal provides a non-invasive means for measuring the accumulation of iron during aging and neurodegenerative

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