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Abstract #0558

On Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging in the Presence of Pathological Plasma-Protein Concentrations

Daniel Nanz 1 , Stefan Gtschi 2 , Johannes M Froehlich 3,4 , Natalie Chuck 2 , Raffaele Curcio 5 , Val Murray Runge 2 , Gustav Andreisek 2 , and Andreas Boss 2

1 Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zrich, Zrich, Zrich, Switzerland, 2 Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zrich, Zrich, Switzerland, 3 Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETHZ, Zrich, Switzerland, 4 Guerbet AG, Zrich, Switzerland, 5 Institute of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Zrich, Zrich, Switzerland

In an in-vitro study with dilution series of commercially available gadolinium-based MR imaging contrast agents, human-serum albumin and human-serum immunoglobulin G, and based on a multi-variate protein-specific evaluation of the experimental relaxivity data, it could be shown that pathological deviations from normal blood-serum concentration levels of both proteins strongly alter the signal enhancement induced by gadolinium-based MR contrast agents, which may have implications for a wide range of (quantitative) gadolinium-based contrast-enhanced MR imaging applications.

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