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Abstract #0385

Potential of MREIT Conductivity Imaging to Evaluate Brain Abscess: in vivo Canine Model

Hyung Joong Kim1, Woo Chul Jeong1, Young Tae Kim1, Chae Young Lim2, Hee Myung Park2, Eung Je Woo1

1Biomedical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Gyeonggi, Korea, Republic of; 2Veterinary Internal Medicine, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of

MREIT can provide conductivity information of suspicious tissue using a current-injection MRI technique. To support its clinical significance, we should demonstrate that the conductivity image provides meaningful diagnostic information that is not available from other imaging modalities. To investigate any change of electrical conductivity due to brain abscess, canine brains having a regional abscess model were scanned along with separate scans of canine brains having no disease model. Conductivity images shown in this study indicated that time-course variations of conductivity contrast between normal and abscess regions are distinguishable in a different way compared with conventional MR image techniques.

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