Intra-examination agreement between multi-echo gradient echo and confounder-corrected chemical shift-encoded MR sequences for R2* estimation as a biomarker of liver iron content in patients with a wide range of T2*/R2* and proton density fat fraction values.
Guilherme Moura CunhaOrpheus KolokythasWenyu ChenHalit AkcicekDave HittNoah E BrillerKathan AminPublished in: Abdominal radiology (New York) (2023)
MEGE-R2* and CSE-R2* strongly agree, though at higher iron content, MEGE-R2* is consistently lower than CSE-R2*. In this preliminary dataset, a breaking point for agreement was found at R2* > 235. Lower agreement was observed in patients with moderate to severe liver steatosis.