Abstract:Heart failure due to iron-overload cardiomyopathy is one of the main causes of mortality. The cardiomyopathy is reversible if intensive iron chelation treatment is done in time. However, the diagnosis is often delayed because the cardiac iron deposition is unpredictable and the symptoms are lately detected. The widely used method in many countries is by calculating a parameter called the T2* (T2-star) from magnetic resonance (MR) image sequences. In order to compute the T2* value, the region of interest (ROI) … Show more
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