Abstract #3646

Repair of Cardiac Damage Using Intrapericardial Drug Delivery by Means of MR-Trackable Alginate Beads

Yamin Yang¹, Marco L.H. Gruwel², Patricia Gervai³, Jiankang Sun³, Olga Jilkina¹, Eugene Gussakovsky¹, Valery Kupriyanov¹

¹Cardiac, NRC-CNRC Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; ²MRTechnology, NRC-CNRC Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; ³MRRD, NRC-CNRC Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Re-establishment of a vascular network is an important step in the repair of damaged myocardium. For this purpose vascular growth factors were applied at the site of injury. To prolong action of these peptides, growth factors were incorporated in alginate beads. However, visualization of the beads is not an easy task.