Fig. 2.

Multi-echo sequence of two patients with different LICs (TR 21 ms, flip angle 35° (TE first = 1.22 ms, TE interval = 1 ms, 20 echoes). Acquisition time: 14.5 s; matrix 244/145). a Patient without iron overload; isointensity of the liver for all the echoes; T2* =17.4 ms. b Patient with iron overload with loss of the signal from the first echoes; T2* = 2.1 ms