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NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
Volume 51, Issue 1, Pages 67-71Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2004.09.006
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magnetic resonance imaging; iron; spin echo; gradient echo
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To determine the amount of iron deposits in the basal ganglia, we examined 13 healthy volunteers with a 1.5 T MRI system using three transverse relaxation rates measured with two sequences. The transverse relaxation rates comprise the reversible contribution (R2') and irreversible contribution (R2) to a phase-reversal 180degrees-pulse sequence. The transverse relaxation rates with the estimated iron indicated that both R2 and R2' had a robust relationship with brain iron level as determined from published post mortem data. This was the case only when the analyses are limited to the subcortical gray matter regions, however. R2' was affected by macroscopic magnetic field inhomogeneity arising from the skull bases, so that it was less robust for estimating the amount of iron deposits in the basal ganglia. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ireland Ltd and the Japan Neuroscience Society. All rights reserved.
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