Chunqi Qian1,
Der-Yow Chen1, Nikorn Pothayee1, Stephen Dodd1,
Joseph Murphy-Boesch1, Alan P. Koretsky1
1National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
A Wireless Amplified NMR Detector has been chronically implanted onto the medial surface of a rats kidney to improve the local detection sensitivity. High resolution microstructures of the kidney, such as the glomeruli and renal tubules, have been simultaneously observed in vivo with Manganese-enhanced MRI.