The measurement of blood flow parameters with deuterium stable isotope MR imaging. 1997

Y Furuya, and H Ikehira, and T Obata, and M Koga, and K Yoshida
Division of Advanced Technology for Medical Imaging, Research Center of Charged Particle Technique, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan.

METHODS Because there are no radioactive hydrogen isotopes which can be used for clinical examinations, deuterium as a non-radioactive, freely diffusible tracer has some advantages compared with the radioactive tracers in the measurement of blood flow parameters. A non-invasive technique to estimate the mean tissue blood flow parameter in vivo was developed by using deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging in rat. We obtained the NMR signal changes from deuterium NMR images in nine male Wister rats after intravenous injection of D2O and applied exponential curve fitting analyses to calculate blood flow parameters of the brain, heart and skeletal muscle. RESULTS While fitting the reducing of the monoexponential function yielded a blood flow parameter of 27.9 +/- 1.6 ml/min/100 g tissue weight for the brain and 46.7 +/- 3.7 ml/min/100 g tissue weight for the heart, fitting the early reducing of the signal intensity of the biexponential function yielded a blood flow parameter of 95.6 +/- 10.9 ml/min/100 g tissue weight for the brain and 108.0 +/- 13.1 ml/min/100 g tissue weight for the heart. The mean muscle blood flow parameter determined by the monoexponential uptake function was 43.8 +/- 7.3 ml/min/100 g tissue weight. CONCLUSIONS The blood flow parameter measurement by means of an imaging coil for deuterium is less invasive and reflects the mean tissue blood flow parameter for the entire tissue sample more homogeneously than spectroscopic monitoring.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008279 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Non-invasive method of demonstrating internal anatomy based on the principle that atomic nuclei in a strong magnetic field absorb pulses of radiofrequency energy and emit them as radiowaves which can be reconstructed into computerized images. The concept includes proton spin tomographic techniques. Chemical Shift Imaging,MR Tomography,MRI Scans,MRI, Functional,Magnetic Resonance Image,Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Functional,Magnetization Transfer Contrast Imaging,NMR Imaging,NMR Tomography,Tomography, NMR,Tomography, Proton Spin,fMRI,Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging,Imaging, Chemical Shift,Proton Spin Tomography,Spin Echo Imaging,Steady-State Free Precession MRI,Tomography, MR,Zeugmatography,Chemical Shift Imagings,Echo Imaging, Spin,Echo Imagings, Spin,Functional MRI,Functional MRIs,Image, Magnetic Resonance,Imaging, Magnetic Resonance,Imaging, NMR,Imaging, Spin Echo,Imagings, Chemical Shift,Imagings, Spin Echo,MRI Scan,MRIs, Functional,Magnetic Resonance Images,Resonance Image, Magnetic,Scan, MRI,Scans, MRI,Shift Imaging, Chemical,Shift Imagings, Chemical,Spin Echo Imagings,Steady State Free Precession MRI
D008297 Male Males
D012039 Regional Blood Flow The flow of BLOOD through or around an organ or region of the body. Blood Flow, Regional,Blood Flows, Regional,Flow, Regional Blood,Flows, Regional Blood,Regional Blood Flows
D001783 Blood Flow Velocity A value equal to the total volume flow divided by the cross-sectional area of the vascular bed. Blood Flow Velocities,Flow Velocities, Blood,Flow Velocity, Blood,Velocities, Blood Flow,Velocity, Blood Flow
D001921 Brain The part of CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM that is contained within the skull (CRANIUM). Arising from the NEURAL TUBE, the embryonic brain is comprised of three major parts including PROSENCEPHALON (the forebrain); MESENCEPHALON (the midbrain); and RHOMBENCEPHALON (the hindbrain). The developed brain consists of CEREBRUM; CEREBELLUM; and other structures in the BRAIN STEM. Encephalon
D003331 Coronary Vessels The veins and arteries of the HEART. Coronary Arteries,Sinus Node Artery,Coronary Veins,Arteries, Coronary,Arteries, Sinus Node,Artery, Coronary,Artery, Sinus Node,Coronary Artery,Coronary Vein,Coronary Vessel,Sinus Node Arteries,Vein, Coronary,Veins, Coronary,Vessel, Coronary,Vessels, Coronary
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D017208 Rats, Wistar A strain of albino rat developed at the Wistar Institute that has spread widely at other institutions. This has markedly diluted the original strain. Wistar Rat,Rat, Wistar,Wistar Rats
D017666 Deuterium Oxide The isotopic compound of hydrogen of mass 2 (deuterium) with oxygen. (From Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed) It is used to study mechanisms and rates of chemical or nuclear reactions, as well as biological processes. Heavy Water,Oxide, Deuterium,Water, Heavy
D051381 Rats The common name for the genus Rattus. Rattus,Rats, Laboratory,Rats, Norway,Rattus norvegicus,Laboratory Rat,Laboratory Rats,Norway Rat,Norway Rats,Rat,Rat, Laboratory,Rat, Norway,norvegicus, Rattus

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