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Abstract #2945

Establishing a Method of 23 Na - Imaging after Blood Brain Barrier Disruption

Andreas Neubauer 1 , Awais Akbar Bajwa 2 , Michaela Ruttorf 1 , Michael Schwerter 1 , Lothar Schilling 2 , and Lothar Schad 1

1 Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Baden-Wuertemberg, Germany, 2 Division of Neurosurgical Research, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Baden-Wuertemberg, Germany

Tracking pathological processes in vivo is still of great interest in clinical research. Therefore, 23 Na - MRI has become a useful tool to monitor the total sodium concentration in brain tissue. Unfortunately, conventional techniques are not capablo to resolve changes in intra- and extracellular sodium reliably. In this study, we present a method to transiently open the blood brain barrier and load the brain tissue with the sodium shift agent Tm[DOTP] 5-

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