Abstract #3739

Visualization of Myocardial Inflammation in Experimental Autoimmune Myocarditis Rats Detected by MR Imaging with a Magnetofluorescent Nanoparticles

Hyeyoung Moon¹, Hyo Eun Park¹, Quan-Yu Cai¹, Cheongsoo Park¹, Ki-Bae Seung², Kiyuk Chang², Kwan Soo Hong¹

¹Magnetic Resonance Imaging Team, Korea Basic Science Institute, Cheongwon-Gun, Chungcheongbuk-Do, Korea; ²Department of Internal Medicine, Catholic University, Seoul, Korea

In this study, we investigated whether CMR would be feasible and effective for the detecting the inflammation in a rat model of experimental autoimmune myocarditis (EAM) and whether CMR could give a guidance where the biopsy samples should be collected using MNP