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Abstract #3446

Initial Investigation of the Feasibility of Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping in Clinical Practice: An Image Quality Analysis

Shuai Wang1, 2, Weiwei Chen3, Tian Liu4, A. John Tsiouris2, Jianlei Liu5, Yi Wang, 26

1University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Cheng Du, Si Chuan, China; 2Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States; 3Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science&Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China; 4MedImageMetric LLC, New York, United States; 5XiDian University, Xi'an, ShaanXi, China; 6Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States

In this study, we retrospectively evaluated 114 consecutive patients imaged with Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) by examining image quality under different situations, including presence of diverse pathology, various brain regions, and a wide range of age. The consistent image quality observed in this study suggested the potential of QSM as a tool for clinical diagnosis.

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