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On the appearance of bile in clinical MR cholangiopancreatography
K Håkansson1, J O Christoffersson, P Leander
1Department of Radiology, Kalmar Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden.
Purpose:
To study the appearance of bile in clinical MR cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) with special reference to its chemical and physical properties.
Material And Methods:
Gallbladder bile was collected during surgery from 38 patients and studied with respect to chemical constituents. The relaxation rates 1/T1 and 1/T2 of bile were also determined in vitro. In 16 of these 38 patients, abdominal imaging was performed using MRCP as well as T1-weighted GE sequences.
Results:
For 9 of the 13 chemical parameters studied, a positive significant correlation with 1/T1 as well as 1/T2 was found. The median relaxation rates 1/T1 and 1/T2 were 0.76 and 1.48 s-1, respectively. The corresponding ranges were 0.38-3.13 s-1 and 0.70-5.75 s-1, respectively. On the MRCP images a few patients showed gallbladder of poor visibility due to low signal-to-noise ratio. This coincided with a high relaxation rate 1/T2 of bile. On the T1-weighted GE sequences a few patients showed hyperintense gallbladder relative to liver, coinciding with high relaxation rates 1/T1 of bile.
Conclusion:
Bile was found to show a large interindividual variation with respect to relaxation rates 1/T1 and 1/T2. The relaxation rates increased with increasing amounts of substances in the bile. For some patients (11%) MRCP imaging is unsuccessful due to high relaxation rate of bile.
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