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Item In Vivo Renal Lipid Quantification by Accelerated Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging at 3T: Feasibility and Reliability Study(MDPI, 2022-01-01) Alhulail, Ahmad A.; Servati, Mahsa; Ooms, Nathan; Akin, Oguz; Dincer, Alp; Thomas, M. Albert; Dydak, Ulrike; Emir, Uzay E.A reliable and practical renal-lipid quantification and imaging method is needed. Here, the feasibility of an accelerated MRSI method to map renal fat fractions (FF) at 3T and its repeatability were investigated. A 2D density-weighted concentric-ring-trajectory MRSI was used for accelerating the acquisition of 48 x 48 voxels (each of 0.25 mL spatial resolution) without respiratory navigation implementations. The data were collected over 512 complex-FID timepoints with a 1250 Hz spectral bandwidth. The MRSI sequence was designed with a metabolite-cycling technique for lipid-water separation. The in vivo repeatability performance of the sequence was assessed by conducting a test-reposition-retest study within healthy subjects. The coefficient of variation (CV) in the estimated FF from the test-retest measurements showed a high degree of repeatability of MRSI-FF (CV = 4.3 +/- 2.5\%). Additionally, the matching level of the spectral signature within the same anatomical region was also investigated, and their intrasubject repeatability was also high, with a small standard deviation (8.1 +/- 6.4\%). The MRSI acquisition duration was similar to 3 min only. The proposed MRSI technique can be a reliable technique to quantify and map renal metabolites within a clinically acceptable scan time at 3T that supports the future application of this technique for the non-invasive characterization of heterogeneous renal diseases and tumors.Item Effects of pneumoperitoneum with carbon dioxide on renal and hepatic functions in rats(TERMEDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE LTD, 2020-01-01) Bilgic, Tayfun; Narter, FehmiIntroduction: Laparoscopic surgery is a preferred method based on its many benefits. However, increasing abdominal pressure by CO2 insufflation during the implementation of this technique poses challenges. Aim: To determine the degree of renal and liver injury that occurs in a pneumoperitoneum (PP) model of prolonged CO2 insufflation. Material and methods: Twenty-one female Sprague Dawley rats were separated randomly into three groups. Group 1 was the control group and given anesthesia for 3 h. In group 2, PP was administered under anesthesia for 1 h. In the last group, PP was administered under anesthesia to animals for 3 h. We measured renal and liver injury biomarkers and made a histopathological evaluation to estimate the degree of injury and assessed the correlation of biomarkers including kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) with histopathological findings. Results: Histopathological analysis according to the kidney ischemia tubular damage score showed a statistically significant difference between the 3 groups (p < 0.001). There was an increase in KIM-1 levels in the groups, although it was not statistically significant (p = 0.062, p = 0.156, p = 0.350 respectively). According to the correlation test in this research, KIM-1 results had a statistically significant association with creatinine, urea, aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase levels in all control and study groups. Conclusions: According to our results, the increase in KIM-1 was correlated with Cr levels and compatible with histopathological analysis. Moreover, intra-abdominal pressure statistically significantly increased the degree of kidney injury and there was not a significant increase in the levels of KIM-1. There was no difference in liver damage between groups.