R2 relaxometry with MRI for the quantifi
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Efthymia Alexopoulou; Fotini Stripeli; Panagiotis Baras; Ioannis Seimenis; Anton
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## Purpose To evaluate the usefulness of a time‐efficient MRI method for the quantitative determination of tissue iron in the liver and heart of β‐thalassemic patients using spin‐spin relaxation rate, R2, measurements. ## Materials and Methods Images were obtained at 1.5 T from aqueo