ArticleFrontiers in medicine2025
Comparative assessments of myocardial iron load in thalassemia patients between dark blood and bright blood MRI T2* techniques.
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- Multimodal evidence chain of iron overload, inflammation, and dysfunction: an integrated predictive model of early cardiac injury in pediatric transfusion-dependentFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
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Objective: To investigate the difference of black blood (DB) and bright blood (BB) T2* techniques at 1.5 T and 3 T in the assessment of myocardial iron load in patients with thalassemia (TM). Methods: As a retrospective study. CMRtools software was used to measure myocardial T2* in 359 patients with moderate (60 g/L < Hemoglobin<90 g/L) or severe (Hemoglobin<60 g/L) thalassemia. A truncation method was used to remove signal values that deviated from the fitted curve. T2* (DBx-T2*, BBx-T2*) containing all (eight echoes) signals (DB8-T2*, BB8-T2*) and the optimal signal (coefficient of determination Results: There was no significant difference ( Conclusion: DB CMR T2* and BB CMR T2* can be interchangeable in the assessment of myocardial iron load in TM patients. However, DB CMR T2* is more stable and reliable.
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