High Resolution Detection of Kidney Microstructures in vivo with a Wireless Amplified NMR Detector and Mn-Enhanced MRI.

Chunqi Qian¹, Der-Yow Chen¹, Nikorn Pothayee¹, Stephen Dodd¹, Joseph Murphy-Boesch¹, Alan P. Koretsky¹

A Wireless Amplified NMR Detector has been chronically implanted onto the medial surface of a rats kidney to improve the local detection sensitivity. High resolution microstructures of the kidney, such as the glomeruli and renal tubules, have been simultaneously observed in vivo with Manganese-enhanced MRI.