Abstract #3914

Manganese-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Pancreatic Function in Mice

Smaragada Lamprianou¹, Jennifer Jung^2,3, Laurent Vinet¹, Rolf Gruetter^4,5,6, Paolo Meda¹, and Hongxia Lei^3,6

¹Dept of Cell Physiology and metabolism, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, ²Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, ³Animal Imaging and Technology CIBM-AIT, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁴Laboratory of functional and metabolic imaging LIFMET, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁵Radiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁶Radiology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) at high magnetic field, with the help of manganese, a calcium analogue and a T₁ shortening contrast agent in MRI, could be beneficial for imaging murine pancreatic function.

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