Spatial distribution of deoxy myoglobin in human muscle: an index of local tissue oxygenation
✍ Scribed by Tuan-Khanh Tran; Napapon Sailasuta; Ralph Hurd; Thomas Jue
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0952-3480
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✦ Synopsis
The proximal histidyl N H signal of myoglobin is detectable in 1 H NMR spectra of myocardial and skeletal muscle, and its intensity reflects the intracellular oxygenation. At 1.5 Tesla (T), the typical field strength of clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) magnets, the paramagnetic relaxation contribution decreases sufficiently to permit the implementation of chemical shift imaging technique to map the spatial distribution of the deoxy Mb N H signal from human gastrocnemius muscle. One and two-dimensional chemical shift imaging experiments reveal clearly the localized deoxy Mb signal in muscle and consequently the spatial distribution of the cellular oxygenation.
The results indicate the feasibility to assess the pO 2 in tissue regions and to directly study the regulation of oxidative metabolism in human tissue.