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Abstract #3700

Ex-vivo MR spectroscopy in paraformaldehyde-fixed mouse brain

Alireza Abaei1, Dinesh K Deelchand 2, Stefano Antonucci3, Jelena Scekic-Zahirovic3, Florian olde Heuvel3, Francesco Roselli3, and Volker Rasche4
1Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, 2Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 3German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Ulm, Germany, 4Core Facility Small Animal Imaging (CF-SANI), University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Synopsis

Keywords: Spectroscopy, Spectroscopy, in vivo ex vivo MRSThe goal of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility and reliability of metabolite characterization by MR spectroscopy ex vivo in order to maximize the information obtained from a single brain specimen, without the limitations such as scanning time, degraded MRI quality due to intervening tissue and motion artifacts. We demonstrate that ex-vivo spectroscopy obtained after rapid PBS/PFA perfusion is strongly correlated with the MR spectrum previously acquired in the same animal but in vivo but distinct abnormalities due to hypoxia and incomplete fixation do appear; the quality of the spectrum quickly degrades upon longer fixation times.

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