MO‐F‐211‐07: Quantifying Magnetic Susceptibility of Veneous Blood by the Complex Sum Method in MRI

Purpose: Changes of venous blood oxygenation level leads to direct changes in the magnetic susceptibility of veins. The oxygenation level reflects the physiological state of a given vein. Therefore, susceptibility quantification of veins has been a strong interest in MRI. Here we will demonstrate a general approach to extracting magnetic susceptibilities of veins at arbitrary orientations from only two or three echoes of a standard 3D gradient …