Characterization of Experimental Ischemic Brain Edema Utilizing Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Author:

Kato Hiroyuki,Kogure Kyuya,Ohtomo Hitoshi,Izumiyama Masahiro,Tobita Muneshige,Matsui Shigeru1,Yamamoto Etsuji1,Kohno Hideki1,Ikebe Yoshinori2,Watanabe Takao3

Affiliation:

1. Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo

2. Hitachi Naka Works, Katsuta, Japan

3. Department of Environmental Health, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai

Abstract

Correlations between T1 and T2 relaxation times and water and electrolyte content in the normal and ischemic rat and gerbil brains were studied by means of both nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic and imaging methods. In the spectroscopic experiment on excised rat brains, T1 was linearly dependent on tissue water content and T2 was prolonged in edematous tissue to a greater extent than expected by an increase in water content, showing that T2 possesses a greater sensitivity for edema identification and localization. Changes in Na+ and K+ content of the tissue mattered little in the prolongation of relaxation times. Serial NMR imaging of gerbil brains insulted with permanent hemispheric ischemia offered early lesion detection in T1- and especially T2-weighted images (detection as soon as 30 min after insult). The progressive nature of lesions was also imaged. Calculated T1 and T2 relaxation times in regions of interest correlated excellently with tissue water content ( r = 0.892 and 0.744 for T1 and T2, respectively). As a result, detection of cerebral ischemia utilizing NMR imaging was strongly dependent on a change in tissue water content. The different nature of T1 and T2 relaxation times was also observed.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Neurology (clinical),Neurology

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