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    Coronary MR angiography: experimental results with a monomer-stabilized blood pool contrast medium (2002)

    Art
    Zeitschriftenartikel / wissenschaftlicher Beitrag
    Autoren
    Taupitz, Matthias
    Schnorr, Jörg
    Wagner, Susanne
    Abramjuk, Claudia
    Pilgrimm, Herbert
    Kivelitz, Dietmar
    Schink, Tania
    Hansel, Jörg
    Laub, Gerhard
    Hünigen, Hanna
    Hamm, Bernd
    Quelle
    Radiology
    Bandzählung: 222
    Heftzählung: 1
    Seiten: 120 – 6
    ISSN: 0033-8419
    Sprache
    Englisch
    Verweise
    Pubmed: 11756715
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    Koserstr. 20
    14195 Berlin
    +49 30 838 75784
    anatomie@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

    Abstract / Zusammenfassung

    To evaluate the signal-enhancing characteristics of monomer-coated very small superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) particles used as a blood pool contrast medium for magnetic resonance (MR) angiography in the coronary arteries.

    The particles used in this study were coated with citrate as the monomer (VSOP-C91). The particles have a total diameter of 7 nm and show the following relaxivities at 0.47 T: T1, 19 L/mmol. sec(-1); T2, 29 L/mmol. sec(-1). Fifteen cardiac MR examinations were performed at 1.5 T in five pigs. Images were acquired from immediately to 35 minutes (equilibrium phase) after intravenous injection of gadopentetate dimeglumine, gadobenate dimeglumine, and the very small SPIO particles (n = 5 for each substance).

    Immediately after administration of gadopentetate dimeglumine, gadobenate dimeglumine, and the very small SPIO particles, respectively, increases in the signal-to-noise ratio in blood were 94%, 103%, and 102% and in myocardium were 83%, 83%, and 29% (P <.05, very small SPIO particles versus the low-molecular-weight gadolinium-based compounds). Differences in the blood-to-myocardium contrast-to-noise ratio and visualization of the coronary arteries and their branches were also significant.

    VSOP-C91 significantly improves visualization of the coronary arteries at MR angiography from immediately to 35 minutes after injection.