Inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract are likely to cause enlargement of the abdominal lymph nodes which could potentially act as a biomarker of local inflammation. Lymphatics have been identified using a range of MRI sequences but previous work has largely focused on changes in cancer rather than chronic inflammatory diseases. We present here the first comparison of quantitative non-invasive MRI measures of T2, Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC) and size of lymph nodes in healthy volunteers and patients with a range of inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases.
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