• Radiology · Jan 2012

    Cerebral microbleeds: burden assessment by using quantitative susceptibility mapping.

    • Tian Liu, Krishna Surapaneni, Min Lou, Liuquan Cheng, Pascal Spincemaille, and Yi Wang.
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
    • Radiology. 2012 Jan 1;262(1):269-78.

    PurposeTo assess quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) for reducing the inconsistency of standard magnetic resonance (MR) imaging sequences in measurements of cerebral microbleed burden.Materials And MethodsThis retrospective study was HIPAA compliant and institutional review board approved. Ten patients (5.6%) were selected from among 178 consecutive patients suspected of having experienced a stroke who were imaged with a multiecho gradient-echo sequence at 3.0 T and who had cerebral microbleeds on T2*-weighted images. QSM was performed for various ranges of echo time by using both the magnitude and phase components in the morphology-enabled dipole inversion method. Cerebral microbleed size was measured by two neuroradiologists on QSM images, T2*-weighted images, susceptibility-weighted (SW) images, and R2* maps calculated by using different echo times. The sum of susceptibility over a region containing a cerebral microbleed was also estimated on QSM images as its total susceptibility. Measurement differences were assessed by using the Student t test and the F test; P < .05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.ResultsWhen echo time was increased from approximately 20 to 40 msec, the measured cerebral microbleed volume increased by mean factors of 1.49 ± 0.86 (standard deviation), 1.64 ± 0.84, 2.30 ± 1.20, and 2.30 ± 1.19 for QSM, R2*, T2*-weighted, and SW images, respectively (P < .01). However, the measured total susceptibility with QSM did not show significant change over echo time (P = .31), and the variation was significantly smaller than any of the volume increases (P < .01 for each).ConclusionThe total susceptibility of a cerebral microbleed measured by using QSM is a physical property that is independent of echo time.© RSNA, 2011.

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