. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2016 Aug 11;78(1):264–270. doi: 10.1002/mrm.26358

Table 1.

Linear regression analyses comparing QSM-BLS, R2* mapping, and SQUID-BLS in two healthy controls and 14 patients with liver iron overload show strong correlations between each pair of measurements.

	slope	intercept	r²

QSM-BLS vs. SQUID-BLS	0.49 ± 0.05	−0.22 ± 0.11 ppm	0.88
R2* vs. SQUID-BLS	139.47 ± 13.59 s⁻¹/ppm	−6.29 ± 30.76 s⁻¹	0.88
QSM-BLS vs. R2*	0.0034 ± 0.0003 ppm/s⁻¹	−0.17 ± 0.09 ppm	0.92