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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: NMR Biomed. 2018 Jan 19;31(3):10.1002/nbm.3883. doi: 10.1002/nbm.3883

Figure 2.

Figure 2

(A) Representative coronal kidney Fractional Anisotropy (FA) maps of a healthy control subject (age = 26) and a patient with SCD (age = 14). Note the distinctive medullary regions for the control subject (focal red regions, FA > 0.3) indicative of healthy radially-aligned tubules and vessels. These medullary FA values are visibly reduced for the patient with SCD (FA < 0.3). (B) Representative coronal kidney Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC) maps of a healthy control subject (age = 26) and a patient with SCD (age = 14). Note the relative similarity of the ADC maps between the control and the SCD patient despite known iron loading in the SCD patient population.