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Validation Study of Venous Oxygenation in Internal Cerebral Vein in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease by QSM and CISSCO Method
Jian Shen1, Aart Nederveen2, and John Wood1,3
1Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2Radiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Both QSM and CISSCO methods reveal the group differences in oxygen saturation in the internal cerebral vein, indicating the existence of "physiological shunting".
Figure 3. Relationship between venous oxygen saturation and hemoglobin measured by QSM and CISSCO.
Figure 1. Acquired image and the internel cerebral vein. Magnitude in axial view (top left), magnitude in coronal view(bottom left), phase in coronal view (bottom right) and processed susceptibility map (top right).