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Magnetic resonance imaging of rodent teeth
O Beuf1, M J Seurin, A Briguet
1Laboratoire de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire UPRESA 5012, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I-ESCPE, Villeurbanne, France.
Magma (New York, N.Y.)
|August 24, 1999
Abstract:
In this paper, the anatomical structures of rat jaws are studied using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with high spatial resolution. In vivo microimages of teeth from 3- and 12-week-old (young and adult) rats have been performed. A 2 T nuclear magnetic resonance microscope was used to collect, with multiple orientations, non-invasive 2D data images using the spin-echo technique. MRI appears well suited to give images of the oral area and may represent a useful tool for diagnosis of dental diseases and more particularly of pulp pathologies.