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Abstract #1590

Overhauser-enhanced MRI at ultra-low fields: a new system for imaging of free radicals in rodents

Dahmane Boudries1, Philippe Massot1, Elodie Parzy1, Seda Seren1, Philippe Mellet2, Jean-Michel Franconi1, Sylvain Marque3, Florian Fidler4, Stefan Wintzheimer5, Markus Mützel5, and Eric Thiaudiere1
1CNRS, Bordeaux, France, 2INSERM, Bordeaux, France, 3CNRS, Marseille, France, 4Fraunhofer, Würzburg, Germany, 5Pure devices, Rimpar, Germany

Synopsis

Keywords: Low-Field MRI, Molecular Imaging, Ultra low field, OMRI, DNP, Magnetic prepolarizationA new MRI system at Ultra-low field (206 µT) was designed for Overhauser-enhanced MRI. It allows both conventional MRI with pre-polarization at 20 mT and Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in the 70MHz range in living rats. Anatomical images in 3D allowed a correct visualization of the rat body shape. OMRI with injected or instilled stable and non-toxic nitroxides permitted to detect the free radicals in the lungs, the kidneys and the bladder. The work opens the way of molecular imaging of abnormal proteolysis in the context of a variety of diseases in large animals.

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