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INTRODUCTION: Endobronchial one-way valves have been proposed as treatment for persistent air leak complicating spontaneous pneumothorax in which surgical intervention is not feasible. However, published data on efficacy, safety, and factors associated with success are scanty. METHODS: This is a retrospective study of 37 patients at a general hospital from 2008 to 2016. The impact of endobronchial valve implantation on the time to air-leak cessation after bronchoscopy was evaluated. RESULTS: The median patient age was 71 years. The majority of patients were males (92%), were ever-smokers (83%), had at least one co-morbidity (97%), and had secondary spontaneous pneumothorax (89%). Nineteen patients (51%) had a mean of 2.6 endobronchial valves implanted (range, 1-6). The air leak ceased within 72 hours for only eight patients (22% of the complete cohort), with immediate air-leak cessation after completion of endobronchial valve implantation. All six successful cases that had computed tomographic data of the thorax were shown to have bilateral intact interlobar fissures. The median (interquartile range) Charlson co-morbidity index was 1 (0.25-1) and 2 (1-3) for the success group and failure group, respectively (P=0.029). All patients in the no-endobronchial valve group survived, whereas three patients in the endobronchial valve group died within 30 days of endobronchial valve implantation. CONCLUSION: Only a small proportion of cases of endobronchial valve implantation for air leak complicating pneumothorax had unequivocal success. Intact bilateral interlobar fissures appear to be a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for success. Patients with fewer medical co-morbidities and immediate air-leak cessation after endobronchial valve implantation have a higher likelihood of success.
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Pneumotórax/cirurgia , Próteses e Implantes , Idoso , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pneumotórax/complicações , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/mortalidade , Próteses e Implantes/efeitos adversos , Estudos RetrospectivosRESUMO
The borders of human visual areas V1, V2, VP, V3, and V4 were precisely and noninvasively determined. Functional magnetic resonance images were recorded during phase-encoded retinal stimulation. This volume data set was then sampled with a cortical surface reconstruction, making it possible to calculate the local visual field sign (mirror image versus non-mirror image representation). This method automatically and objectively outlines area borders because adjacent areas often have the opposite field sign. Cortical magnification factor curves for striate and extrastriate cortical areas were determined, which showed that human visual areas have a greater emphasis on the center-of-gaze than their counterparts in monkeys. Retinotopically organized visual areas in humans extend anteriorly to overlap several areas previously shown to be activated by written words.
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Mapeamento Encefálico/métodos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , Córtex Visual/fisiologia , Animais , Haplorrinos , Humanos , Visão Ocular , Córtex Visual/anatomia & histologiaRESUMO
How does voluntary attention to one attribute of a visual stimulus affect the neural processing of that stimulus? We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the attentional modulation of neural activity in the human homolog of the MT-MST complex, which is known to be involved in the processing of visual motion. Using a visual stimulus containing both moving and stationary dots, we found significantly more MT-MST activation when subjects attended to the moving dots than when they attended to the stationary dots, even though the visual stimulus was identical during the two conditions.
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Atenção/fisiologia , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Percepção de Movimento/fisiologia , Córtex Visual/fisiologia , Percepção Visual/fisiologia , Adulto , Movimentos Oculares/fisiologia , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , VoliçãoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: The new technique of functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to investigate the mediating neuroanatomy of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms. METHODS: Ten patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and 5 normal subjects were studied via functional magnetic resonance imaging during control and provoked conditions. Data analysis entailed parametric and nonparametric statistical mapping. RESULTS: Statistical maps (nonparametric; P < 10(-3)) showed activation for 70% or more of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder in medial orbitofrontal, lateral frontal, anterior temporal, anterior cingulate, and insular cortex, as well as caudate, lenticulate, and amygdala. No normal subjects exhibited activation in any brain region. CONCLUSIONS: Results of functional magnetic resonance imaging were consistent with past studies of obsessive-compulsive disorder that used other functional neuroimaging modalities. However, paralimbic and limbic activations were more prominent in the present study.
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Encéfalo/anatomia & histologia , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/estatística & dados numéricos , Transtorno Obsessivo-Compulsivo/diagnóstico , Adulto , Afeto/fisiologia , Encéfalo/irrigação sanguínea , Encéfalo/fisiologia , Humanos , Sistema Límbico/irrigação sanguínea , Sistema Límbico/fisiologia , Angiografia por Ressonância Magnética/estatística & dados numéricos , Modelos Estatísticos , Transtorno Obsessivo-Compulsivo/etiologia , Transtorno Obsessivo-Compulsivo/psicologia , Fluxo Sanguíneo Regional , Estatística como Assunto , Tomografia Computadorizada de Emissão , Tomografia Computadorizada de Emissão de Fóton ÚnicoRESUMO
This study investigated how a decrease in neuronal activity affects cerebral blood oxygenation employing a paradigm of acoustically triggered saccades in complete darkness. Known from behavioral evidence as saccadic suppression, electrophysiologically it has been shown in monkeys that during saccades an attenuation of activity occurs in visual cortex neurons (Duffy and Burchfiel, 1975). In study A, using blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) contrast functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the authors observed signal intensity decreases bilaterally at the occipital pole during the performance of saccades at 2 Hz. In study B.1, the authors directly measured changes in deoxyhemoglobin [deoxy-Hb] and oxyhemoglobin [oxy-Hb] concentration in the occipital cortex with near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). Whereas a rise in [deoxy-Hb] during the performance of saccades occurred, there was a drop in [oxy-Hb]. In a second NIRS study (B.2), subjects performed saccades at different rates (1.6, 2.0, and 2.3 Hz). Here the authors found the increase in deoxy-Hb and the decrease of oxy-Hb to be dependent on the frequency of the saccades. In summary, the authors observed a focal hypooxygenation in the human visual cortex dependent on the saccade-frequency in an acoustically triggered saccades paradigm. This could be interpreted as evidence that corresponding to the focal hyperoxygenation observed in functional brain activation, caused by an excessive increase in cerebral blood flow (CBF) over the increase in CMRO2 during decreased neuronal activity CBF, is more reduced than oxygen delivery.
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Lobo Occipital/metabolismo , Consumo de Oxigênio/fisiologia , Movimentos Sacádicos/fisiologia , Estimulação Acústica , Adulto , Circulação Cerebrovascular , Sinais (Psicologia) , Feminino , Hemoglobinas/análise , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Oxigênio/sangue , Oxiemoglobinas/análise , Estimulação Luminosa , Espectroscopia de Luz Próxima ao InfravermelhoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Functional MRI (fMRI) is of potential value in determining hemisphere dominance for language in epileptic patients. OBJECTIVE: To develop and validate an fMRI-based method of determining language dominance for patients with a wide range of potentially operable brain lesions in addition to epilepsy. METHODS: Initially, a within-subjects design was used with 19 healthy volunteers (11 strongly right-handed, 8 left-handed) to determine the relative lateralizing usefulness of three different language tasks in fMRI. An automated, hemispheric analysis of laterality was used to analyze whole brain fMRI data sets. To evaluate the clinical usefulness of this method, we compared fMRI-determined laterality with laterality determined by Wada testing or electrocortical stimulation mapping, or both, in 23 consecutive patients undergoing presurgical evaluation of language dominance. RESULTS: Only the verb generation task was reliably lateralizing. fMRI, using the verb generation task and an automated hemispheric analysis method, was concordant with invasive measures in 22 of 23 patients (12 Wada, 11 cortical stimulation). For the single patient who was discordant, in whom a tumor involved one-third of the left hemisphere, fMRI became concordant when the tumor and its reflection in the right hemisphere were excluded from laterality analysis. No significant negative correlation was obtained between lesion size and strength of laterality for the patients with lesions involving the dominant hemisphere. CONCLUSION: This fMRI method shows potential for evaluating language dominance in patients with a variety of brain lesions.
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Encefalopatias/patologia , Encefalopatias/fisiopatologia , Encéfalo/patologia , Encéfalo/fisiopatologia , Lateralidade Funcional/fisiologia , Idioma , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Mapeamento Encefálico , Feminino , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-IdadeRESUMO
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of human brain activity are described. Task-induced changes in brain cognitive state were measured using high-speed MRI techniques sensitive to changes in cerebral blood volume (CBV), blood flow (CBF), and blood oxygenation. These techniques were used to generate the first functional MRI maps of human task activation, by using a visual stimulus paradigm. The methodology of MRI brain mapping and results from the investigation of the functional organization and frequency response of human primary visual cortex (V1) are presented.
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Mapeamento Encefálico/métodos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , Córtex Visual/fisiologia , Circulação Cerebrovascular/fisiologia , Cognição/fisiologia , Meios de Contraste , Gadolínio , Gadolínio DTPA , Humanos , Compostos Organometálicos , Ácido Pentético , Estimulação Luminosa , Córtex Visual/anatomia & histologiaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: We studied the local relation of muscle perfusion and metabolism in patients with severe chronic heart failure. Alterations of skeletal muscle blood flow and oxidative capacity contribute to exercise intolerance in these patients. The interdependence of both parameters has often been questioned. METHODS AND RESULTS: With the use of nuclear magnetic resonance, we quantified leg and muscle perfusion during reactive hyperemia in 7 patients with heart failure (New York Heart Association class III and IV) and 7 age-matched control subjects from the difference in longitudinal relaxation rate (1/T1). By using 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, we assessed oxidative metabolism from the creatine rephosphorylation time constant after a short ischemic exercise. Phosphocreatine recovery is slowed (74.6 +/- 11.3 vs 49.9 +/- 13.9 seconds, p = .002) and reactive hyperemic flow is reduced (48.5 +/- 24.9 vs 113 +/- 30.4 mL/100 mL per minute, p = .0005). CONCLUSIONS: By using a totally noninvasive protocol, we demonstrated that reactive hyperemic flow correlates with oxidative capacity in calf muscles from patients with heart failure, showing that exercise performance and local circulatory dysfunction are decreased in parallel in severe heart failure.
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Insuficiência Cardíaca/fisiopatologia , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Espectroscopia de Ressonância Magnética , Músculo Esquelético/irrigação sanguínea , Músculo Esquelético/metabolismo , Idoso , Doença Crônica , Tolerância ao Exercício/fisiologia , Humanos , Perna (Membro) , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Fosforilação Oxidativa , Fosfocreatina/metabolismo , Fluxo Sanguíneo RegionalRESUMO
Neuropsychological, computational, and psycholinguistic data suggest the existence of semantic maps, i.e. localized representations of semantic information in the brain. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, this hypothesis was directly tested with a picture naming task involving items from four different semantic categories. Small left lateralized fronto-temporal cortical sites of category-specific activation were found when brain activation signals were averaged. Data suggest the existence of multiple maps coding high-level representations of objects, such that meaningful distinctions, at least in part, govern the physical distribution of cortical semantic storage.
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Mapeamento Encefálico , Cognição/fisiologia , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , Reconhecimento Visual de Modelos/fisiologia , Potenciais Evocados/fisiologia , Lateralidade Funcional/fisiologia , Humanos , Masculino , Valores de Referência , SemânticaRESUMO
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated whether the response of auditory and visual cortex was modulated by attending selectively to either heard or seen numbers presented simultaneously. Alternating attention between modalities modulated fMRI signal within the corresponding sensory cortex. This study provides evidence that attention acts locally during early auditory cognitive sensory processing, and that modulation of auditory and visual sensory cortex by attention is modality-dependent.
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Atenção/fisiologia , Córtex Auditivo/fisiologia , Córtex Visual/fisiologia , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , MasculinoRESUMO
Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), we have examined the relationship of high-energy phosphate metabolism and perfusion in human soleus and gastrocnemius muscles. With 31P-NMR spectroscopy, we monitored phosphocreatine (PCr) decay and recovery in eight normal volunteers and four heart failure patients performing ischemic plantar flexion. By using echo-planar imaging, perfusion was independently measured by a local [inversion-recovery (T1-flow)] and a regional technique (NMR-plethysmography). After correction for its pH dependence, PCr recovery time constant is 27.5 +/- 8.0 s in normal volunteers, with mean flow 118 +/- 75 (soleus and gastrocnemius T1-flow) and 30.2 +/- 9.7 ml.100 ml-1.min-1 (NMR-plethysmography-flow). We demonstrate a positive correlation between PCr time constant and local perfusion given by y = 50 - 0.15x (r2 = 0.68, P = 0.01) for the 8 normal subjects, and y = 64 - 0.24x (r2 = 0.83, P = 0.0001) for the 12 subjects recruited in the study. Regional perfusion techniques also show a significant but weaker correlation. Using this totally noninvasive method, we conclude that aerobic ATP resynthesis is related to the magnitude of perfusion, i.e., O2 availability, and demonstrate that magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy together can accurately assess muscle functional status.
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Músculo Esquelético/irrigação sanguínea , Músculo Esquelético/metabolismo , Adulto , Exercício Físico/fisiologia , Insuficiência Cardíaca/fisiopatologia , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Espectroscopia de Ressonância Magnética , Oxirredução , Fosfocreatina/sangue , Fosfocreatina/metabolismo , Pletismografia , Fluxo Sanguíneo Regional/fisiologia , Decúbito Dorsal/fisiologiaRESUMO
We investigated the basal ganglia, motor cortex area 4, and supplementary motor area (SMA) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and five motor tasks: switching between finger and toe movements, writing, finger tapping, pronation/supination, and saccadic eye movements. We found reliable activation in the caudate nucleus and putamen in single subjects without the need for inter-subject averaging. Percent signal changes in basal ganglia were smaller by a factor of three than those in SMA or motor cortex (1% vs. 2.5-3%). There was a definite foot-dorsal, hand-ventral basal ganglia somatotopy, similar to prior data from primates. Saccadic eye movements activated the caudate nucleus significantly more than the other tasks did. Unilateral movements produced bilateral activation in the striatum even when motor cortex activation was unilateral. Surprisingly, bilateral performance of the tasks led, on average, to consistently smaller basal ganglia activation than did unilateral performance (P<0.001), suggesting less inhibition of contralateral movements during bilateral tasks. Moreover, there was a striking dominance pattern in basal ganglia motor activation: the left basal ganglia were more active than the right for right handers, regardless of the hand used. This lateralization appears much stronger than that previously reported for motor cortex. Comparisons of inter-subject and intra-subject reproducibility indicated a much larger variability in basal ganglia and SMA compared to motor cortex, in spite of similar percent signal changes in the latter two structures.
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Gânglios da Base/fisiologia , Mapeamento Encefálico/métodos , Atividade Motora/fisiologia , Córtex Motor/fisiologia , Desempenho Psicomotor/fisiologia , Tálamo/fisiologia , Adulto , Feminino , Dedos/inervação , Lateralidade Funcional , Mãos/inervação , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Movimentos Sacádicos , Dedos do Pé/inervaçãoRESUMO
PURPOSE: MR diffusion imaging was performed to investigate changes in water diffusion in patients with cerebral infarction. METHODS: Diffusion maps of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) were created to show local water mobility in the brain tissue in 15 patients. These ADC maps were compared with conventional T2-weighted images. RESULTS: Distinct subregions with different water diffusions were detected, even when the infarcted area appeared homogeneous on a T2-weighted image. The results also show that stroke lesions of the same age can have very different water diffusions. A trend towards an increasing diffusion coefficient in a lesion during the first several days following an acute event was observed in a group of patients imaged at multiple timepoints. CONCLUSION: The measurement of diffusion coefficients in vivo now offers an opportunity for greater understanding of the biophysical changes that occur during the evolution of infarction in humans.
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Água Corporal/metabolismo , Infarto Cerebral/metabolismo , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , Adulto , Idoso , Difusão , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Projetos PilotoRESUMO
PURPOSE: Maps related to relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) were generated with the use of the T1 effects produced by a low-dose bolus passage of gadopentetate dimeglumine. The T1 maps were evaluated in a tumor population and compared with rCBV maps obtained with T2-weighted measurements. METHODS: Imaging was performed in 19 patients with suspected intraaxial brain tumors. For the T1 rCBV maps, a low-dose bolus of contrast material was given during T1-weighted interleaved spin-echo echo-planar MR imaging. This was followed by a second injection during serial T2-weighted imaging for generation of the T2 rCBV maps. RESULTS: Among patients with low-grade lesions (n = 9), T1-based and T2-based rCBV maps showed comparably low rCBV in 7 subjects. In the other 2 patients, with confirmed tumor dedifferentiation, elevation of rCBV values was seen on maps obtained with both techniques. Among patients with high-grade tumors (n = 10), 4 had no evidence of recurrence and 6 did have tumor recurrence (confirmed by follow-up and positron emission tomography). In patients with the high-grade lesions exhibiting conventional contrast enhancement, lesions tended to have higher estimated values on T1 rCBV maps than on the T2 rCBV maps. CONCLUSION: Although the T1 rCBV maps showed less contrast as compared with the T2 rCBV maps, they provided diagnostic information that was comparable to the T2 rCBV maps in our series of 19 patients with primary brain tumors.
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Volume Sanguíneo , Neoplasias Encefálicas/fisiopatologia , Circulação Cerebrovascular , Imagem Ecoplanar , Adulto , Encéfalo/patologia , Neoplasias Encefálicas/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Encefálicas/patologia , Neoplasias Encefálicas/terapia , Meios de Contraste/administração & dosagem , Combinação de Medicamentos , Feminino , Seguimentos , Gadolínio/administração & dosagem , Gadolínio DTPA , Glioma/diagnóstico , Glioma/patologia , Glioma/fisiopatologia , Glioma/terapia , Humanos , Aumento da Imagem/métodos , Injeções Intravenosas , Masculino , Meglumina/administração & dosagem , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/patologia , Compostos Organometálicos/administração & dosagem , Ácido Pentético/administração & dosagem , Ácido Pentético/análogos & derivados , Tomografia Computadorizada de EmissãoRESUMO
PURPOSE: (1) To determine whether functional MR can reliably map functional deficits in patients with stroke in the primary visual cortex; (2) to determine whether functional MR can reliably map perfusion deficits; and (3) to determine whether functional MR can give any additional diagnostic information beyond conventional MR. METHODS: Seven patients who had had a stroke in their primary visual system were examined using two functional MR techniques: (1) dynamic susceptibility contrast imaging, and (2) cortical activation mapping during full-field visual stimulation. Maps of relative cerebral blood volume and activation were created and compared with visual field examinations and conventional T2-weighted images on a quadrant-by-quadrant basis in five of these patients. RESULTS: Visual field mapping matched with both T2-weighted conventional images and activation mapping of 16 of 18 quadrants. In two quadrants, the activation maps detected abnormalities that were present on the visual field examination but not present on the T2-weighted images nor on the relative cerebral blood volume maps, which may indicate abnormal function without frank infarction. In addition, the activation maps demonstrated decreased activation in extrastriate cortex and had normal T2 signal and relative cerebral blood volume but was adjacent to infarcted primary cortex, mapping in vivo how stroke in one location can affect the function of distant tissue. CONCLUSION: Functional MR techniques can accurately map functional and perfusion deficits and thereby provide additional clinically useful information. Additional studies will be needed to determine the prognostic utility of functional MR in stroke patients.
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Mapeamento Encefálico , Circulação Cerebrovascular , Transtornos Cerebrovasculares/fisiopatologia , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Córtex Visual/irrigação sanguínea , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Volume Sanguíneo , Transtornos Cerebrovasculares/complicações , Transtornos Cerebrovasculares/diagnóstico , Doença Crônica , Hemianopsia/etiologia , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Campos VisuaisRESUMO
Magnetic resonance (MR) micro-imaging was performed on enucleated eyes from rabbits previously injected with perfluoropropane gas (C3F8), with or without the surgical creation of retinal detachment. Condensed vitreous, which exhibited shortened longitudinal relaxation time (T1), could be differentiated with proton-density and T1-weighted imaging. Gradient-echo imaging could in addition detect vitreo-retinal tractions. The detached retina itself was also seen. Further, proton-density but not T1-weighted imaging showed lens opacities appearing as high-intensity regions. MR microscopy is a convenient method for gross morphological examination of intact eyes.
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Olho/patologia , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Animais , Catarata/patologia , Feminino , Fluorocarbonos , Cristalino/patologia , Masculino , Coelhos , Descolamento Retiniano/patologia , Corpo Vítreo/patologiaRESUMO
Dynamic images are temporal sequences of images, where the intensities of certain regions of interest (ROI's) change with time, whereas anatomical structures remain stationary. Here, new applications of dynamic image analysis, called similarity mapping, are reviewed. Similarity mapping identifies regions in a dynamic image sequence according to their temporal similarity or dissimilarity with respect to a reference ROI. Pixels in the resulting similarity map whose temporal sequence is similar to the reference ROI have high correlation values and are bright, while those with low correlation values are dark. Therefore, similarity mapping segments structures in a dynamic image sequence based on their temporal responses rather than spatial properties. The authors describe the abilities of similarity mapping to identify different image structures present in several dynamic MRI datasets with potential clinical value. They demonstrate that similarity mapping technique has been successful in identifying the following structures: 1) renal cortex and medulla, 2) activated areas of the brain during photic stimulation, 3) ischemia in the left coronary artery territory, 4) lung tumor, 5) tentorial meningioma, and 6) a region of focal ischemia in brain.
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We have developed an echo-planar (EP) proton chemical shift imaging (CSI) MR technique that allow us to discriminate the polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS, silicone) proton MR signal from that of the fat and water protons found in tissues, in order to map the distribution of PDMA in humans who have silicone gel prostheses. Silicone gel-filled prosthetic implants induce histologic changes in the surrounding tissue which are attributed to the leakage of free PDMS from the prosthesis. The T2 relaxation measurements of three silicone gels show that there are two components in them, each with a different degree of molecular mobility. The presence of free silicone is confirmed by chloroform extraction, which removed 14-28% of the material. This free polymer present in the gel can pass through the intact or ruptured membrane of the implant into the surrounding tissue. Our preliminary imaging results indicate that EP-CSI MR might be useful as a diagnostic technique for implant malfunction.
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Mama/anatomia & histologia , Imagem Ecoplanar/métodos , Próteses e Implantes , Elastômeros de Silicone , Feminino , HumanosRESUMO
There are a number of theoretical and practical questions one needs to consider to understand and optimize contrast to noise of the versatile T1 based perfusion model. We made an evaluation of the several popular T1 based methods currently applied to measure flow and flow change.