Bray, Timothy J. P.
Sakai, Naomi
Dudek, Alexandra
Fisher, Corinne
Rajesparan, Kannan
Lopes, Andre
Ciurtin, Coziana
Sen, Debajit
Bainbridge, Alan
Hall-Craggs, Margaret A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Arthritis Research UK (21369)
UCLH Biomedical Research Centre
National Institute for Health Research (Clinical Lectureship)
Article History
Received: 19 September 2019
Revised: 21 February 2020
Accepted: 2 March 2020
First Online: 14 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Professor Margaret A. Hall-Craggs.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Eighteen of the 53 subjects included in this work were included in a prior publication (developing the PDFF-mapping methodology underpinning this work, but without the BEACH analysis performed here) [Bray et al, Magn Reson Med 2018;79(2)] and in a separate study investigating the use of quantitative susceptibility mapping (an entirely separate method from those investigated here) [Bray et al Magn Reson Med 2019;81(5)].
: • Prospective• Observational• Performed at one institution