Reperfused ischemia of the rat intestine: Detection by MR imaging with polylysine-Gd-DTPA enhancement

✍ Scribed by Isabelle Mottet; Bernard E. van Beers; Monique Delos; Jean-François Goudemant; Jacques Jamart; Roger Demeure; Jacques Pringot

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 464 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0740-3194
• DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910350117

✦ Synopsis

To detect reperfused ischemia of the rat intestine, T2-weighted spin-echo images were acquired, followed by T1-weighted images before and after administration of polylysine-Gd-DTPA or Gd-DTPA. Before administration of the contrast agent, the reperfused intestine was hyperintense on T2-weighted images, and to a lesser extent on T1-weighted images. After administration of polylysine-Gd-DTPA, the reperfused intestine enhanced more than the normal one, giving a significantly better contrast-to-noise (CNR) ratio than on unenhanced images. Gd-DTPA induced the same enhancement of the reperfused and the normal intestine and the CNR was lower than on unenhanced T2-weighted images. Reperfused intestinal ischemia could thus be better detected on polylysine-Gd-DTPA-enhanced MR images than on unenhanced images or on Gd-DTPA-enhanced images.