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Renal blood oxygenation level-dependent imaging: contribution of R2 to R2* values.

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OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to assess the impact of oral water and intravenous furosemide challenges on blood oxygenation level-dependent magnetic resonance imaging measurements in the kidney and to examine the contribution of R2 (=1/T2) to changes in R2* (=1/T2*). MATERIALS AND METHODS:This Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant study had institutional review board approval, and written informed consent was obtained from all subjects. Nine healthy volunteers were imaged at 3 T on 2 visits. During each visit, a baseline fasting magnetic resonance acquisition was followed by a diuretic challenge: oral water load for the first visit and furosemide for the second. R2* and R2 values in the renal cortex and medulla were measured using multiple gradient echo and multiple spin echo sequences, respectively, and R2' values were computed as R2' = R2* - R2. Timed urinary output was also measured. RESULTS:Averaged across all subjects, the R2* response to furosemide was greater than to water and greater in the medulla than the cortex. The mean R2 responses exhibited the same trends but were uniformly smaller than the mean R2* responses. The peak changes in R2* and R2 appeared, on average, 10 to 14 minutes before peak urinary output. The median percentage contribution of R2 to R2* changes was 16% in the medulla after both challenges. In the cortex, the median contribution was 48% after water load and 58% after furosemide challenge. CONCLUSIONS:The contributions of R2 to R2* changes after water load and furosemide challenge are not negligible, especially in the renal cortex. In routine clinical practice, R2* could be used alone as a rough surrogate for R2' in the medulla. However, in the cortex, both R2 and R2* should be measured to obtain accurate values of R2'.

journal_name

Invest Radiol

journal_title

Investigative radiology

authors

Vivier PH,Storey P,Chandarana H,Yamamoto A,Tantillo K,Khan U,Zhang JL,Sigmund EE,Rusinek H,Babb JS,Bubenheim M,Lee VS

doi

10.1097/RLI.0b013e3182823591

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-07-01 00:00:00

pages

501-8

issue

eissn

0020-9996

issn

1536-0210

journal_volume

pub_type

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Renal blood oxygenation level-dependent imaging: contribution of R2 to R2* values.