Abstract
The ultrafast inversion recovery snapshot FLASH technique was used to determine the kinetics of the contrast agent manganese (III) tetraphenylporphine sulfonate (MnTPPS) in experimental brain tumors in rats. In the first part of the investigation this technique was validated with the conventional inversion recovery spin-echo method by comparing in vivo T1 data of a normal rat brain. Agreement between T1 values obtained from both techniques was complete, as tested for a large number of pixels in identical coronal slices. In the second part the fast IR snapshot FLASH method was applied to study the effect of the NMR contrast agent MnTPPS on the T1 relaxation time of experimental gliomas in rat brains. T1 of normal brain tissue (1024-1035 ms), tumor (1217 ms), and edema (1199 ms) was determined with the inversion recovery version of the snapshot FLASH imaging technique. After intraperitoneal injection of MnTPPS (0.25 mmol/kg body wt) T1 decreased exponentially to 56% of control in tumor and to 62% in muscle. In normal and edematous brain tissue no significant changes in T1 were observed up to 5 h after injection of the contrast agent. Once the T1 contrast between tumor and peritumoral brain tissue had reached a saturation, the enhancement persisted for several hours to days. Therefore application of this contrast agent resulted in a sharp demarcation between glioma and peri-tumoral edema.
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