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Enhancement efficacy of magnetic starch microspheres (MSM) in conventional spin-echo and turbo spin-echo sequences at 0.5 T and 1.5 T

✍ Scribed by Burkhard Kreft; Wolfgang Block; Jost Mühlhäuser; Frank Träber; Audun Öksenda; Hans Schild

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
614 KB
Volume
6
Category
Article
ISSN
1053-1807

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✦ Synopsis

The efficacy of the superparamagnetic contrast agent magnetic starch microspheres (MSM) was evaluated in vitro by NMR relaxometry and in vivo by MR imaging using T2-weighted spin-echo (SE) and turbo spin-echo (TSE) sequences at 0.5 T and 1.5 T in 60 normal rats who received MSM in doses of 10-50 mu mol/kg. MR imaging was performed using T2-weighted SE and TSE sequences. The relaxation rates 1/T1 and 1/T2 for liver and spleen increased linearly with MSM concentrations up to 30 mu mol/kg body weight, and approached almost constant levels for higher doses. The slopes in the linear part of the 1/T2 diagram were 0.62 Hz +/- 0.03 for the liver and 0.51 Hz +/- 0.06 x kg/mu mol for the spleen. On all T2-weighted sequences at 0.5 T and 1.5 T, liver signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) decreased by a factor of 2-3 already at the lowest dose of 10 mu mol/kg. SNR values of TSE sequences exceeded values for SE sequences by 50-80%. The SNR decrease was not significantly different between SE and TSE sequences. Our results show that MSM is well suited as a T2 contrast agent at both magnetic field strengths when using conventional SE and fast TSE sequences.

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