Licentiatavhandling (sammanfattning) Linköping : Linköpings universitet, 2009. / Härtill 2 uppsatser.

Para avaliar o efeito do gadolínio sobre os metabólitos Colina (CO), Creatina (CRE) e N-acetil-aspartato (NAA) foi realizada espectroscopia por ressonância magnética em 25 pacientes com tumores intracranianos antes e após a injeção venosa do meio de contraste. Foram quantificadas e comparadas as relações CO/CRE, CO/NAA e NAA/CRE bem como a largura a meia altura dos picos dos metabólitos CO, CRE e NAA nos espectros pré e pós-contraste. Verificou-se redução das relações CO/CRE e CO/NAA e da largura a meia altura do pico do NAA nos espectros pós-contraste / In order to evaluate the gadolinium effect on the metabolites choline (CHO), creatine (CRE) and N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA) we performed multivoxel spectroscopy in 25 patients with intracranial tumors before and after the injection of the contrast material. The metabolite ratios CHO/CRE, CHO/NAA and NAA/CRE and the peak width at half height of the metabolites were calculated and compared between the pre and post contrast spectra. Measurements showed reduction of the CO/CRE and CO/NAA ratios and of the NAA width after the administration of the contrast material

Para avaliar o efeito do gadolínio sobre os metabólitos Colina (CO), Creatina (CRE) e N-acetil-aspartato (NAA) foi realizada espectroscopia por ressonância magnética em 25 pacientes com tumores intracranianos antes e após a injeção venosa do meio de contraste. Foram quantificadas e comparadas as relações CO/CRE, CO/NAA e NAA/CRE bem como a largura a meia altura dos picos dos metabólitos CO, CRE e NAA nos espectros pré e pós-contraste. Verificou-se redução das relações CO/CRE e CO/NAA e da largura a meia altura do pico do NAA nos espectros pós-contraste / In order to evaluate the gadolinium effect on the metabolites choline (CHO), creatine (CRE) and N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA) we performed multivoxel spectroscopy in 25 patients with intracranial tumors before and after the injection of the contrast material. The metabolite ratios CHO/CRE, CHO/NAA and NAA/CRE and the peak width at half height of the metabolites were calculated and compared between the pre and post contrast spectra. Measurements showed reduction of the CO/CRE and CO/NAA ratios and of the NAA width after the administration of the contrast material

Abstract The purpose of the present study was to implement a unique low-field open magnetic resonance scanner for perioperative imaging in neurosurgery. A paradigm was created for joint intraoperative/interventional MRI, including premises, surgical practice and an operational model. The feasibility of the paradigm was tested in clinical work. The joint use of the facilities between the Departments of Neurosurgery and Diagnostic Radiology was found to enhance the economic rationale and provide for perioperative imaging. It was also found to be organizationally viable in the long run. Intraoperative MRI was implemented and studied in connection with neuronavigation and other intraoperative instruments, tools and imaging modalities. The unique shut down possibility of the magnet enabled staged operating-imaging practice, use of non-MRI-compatible instruments and devices, multimodal imaging with navigation, and avoidance of safety risks associated with operating in magnetic fringe fields. Two dynamic contrast enhanced MR imaging sequences, which used undersampled projection reconstruction, were implemented in the low-field scanner. The applicability of these imaging sequences to follow contrast enhancement of meningiomas was studied in laboratory experiments and in two patient cases. The laboratory experiments showed a nearly linear response in signal intensity to the concentration of gadopentetate dimeglumine in purified water up to 1.25 mM. The patient cases showed results consistent with an earlier study performed at high-field strength. The potential of low-field MRI study including dynamic contrast enhanced imaging to predict surgical and histopathologic characteristics of meningiomas was studied in a series of 21 patients. Dynamic contrast enhanced imaging could be used to evaluate microvessel densities of meningiomas. Surgical bleeding, blood loss during operation, progesterone receptor expression and collagen content were statistically best correlated to the relative intensity of meningioma on FLAIR images. Tissue hardness correlated best with relative intensity on T2-weighted images.