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Usefulness of Quantitative Susceptibility MRI for the Detection of Iron in the Motor Cortex in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
qianwen li1, juan Wei2, and jie Lu1
1Xuanwu Hospital,Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, 2GE Healthcare, Beijing, China
Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM), a newly developed quantitative and accurate measurement method that can be used to detect iron-related motor cortex alterations in patients of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that may be relevant to pathologic changes.
Figure1.The susceptibility of primary motor cortex of ALS patients were significantly higher than those of controls
Figure 2.The susceptibility of SMA of ALS patients were significantly higher than those of controls