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Teslascan®InfoSheet: - Contrast Agents - 
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(Mn-DPDP) This agent, mangafodipir trisodium, is a hepatocyte specific MRI contrast agent. Manganese is very toxic, so it has to be chelated and put in the form of a vitamin B6 analog, which is taken up by normal hepatocytes to some extent.
Teslascan® was developed in the early 1980's, went through clinical trials in the early 1990's, and was approved in 1997. One problem with assessing the efficacy of this agent is the fact that the phase III trials finished in the early 1990's, and the techniques used for MR today are very different from the techniques used almost a decade ago.
This contrast agent shortens the T1 relaxation time. On T1 weighted pictures it makes a normal liver look brighter. Since metastases, for example, do not generally take up this agent, the contrast between the enhancing liver and the non-enhancing lesions will increase on T1 weighted pictures. It does not have much effect on T2 weighted images.
Drug Information and Specification
NAME OF COMPOUND
Mangafodipir trisodium, Manganese dipyroxyl diphosphate, MN-DPDP
DEVELOPER
CENTRAL MOIETY
Mn2+
CONTRAST EFFECT
T1, Predominantly positive enhancement
r1=2.3, r2=4.0, B0=1.0 T
PHARMACOKINETIC
Hepatobiliary, pancreatic, adrenal
290 mosm/kgH2O
CONCENTRATION
0.01 mmol/L
DOSAGE
5 µmol/kg, 0.5 ml/kg
PREPARATION
Finished product
INDICATION
Liver lesions
DEVELOPMENT STAGE
Approved
DISTRIBUTOR
See below
PRESENTATION
Vials of 100 ml
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Teslascan®
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Teslascan®
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Further Reading:
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EMEA - Teslascan - SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSION(.pdf)
   by www.emea.europa.eu    
  News & More:
Diagnosis and staging of pancreatic cancer: comparison of mangafodipir trisodium-enhanced MR imaging and contrast-enhanced helical hydro-CT.
2002
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF FOCAL LIVER LESIONS(.pdf)
2002
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Time of Flight AngiographyInfoSheet: - Sequences - 
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(TOF) The time of flight angiography is used for the imaging of vessels. Usually the sequence type is a gradient echo sequences with short TR, acquired with slices perpendicular to the direction of blood flow.
The source of diverse flow effects is the difference between the unsaturated and presaturated spins and creates a bright vascular image without the invasive use of contrast media. Flowing blood moves unsaturated spins from outside the slice into the imaging plane. These completely relaxed spins have full equilibrium magnetization and produce (when entering the imaging plane) a much higher signal than stationary spins if a gradient echo sequence is generated. This flow related enhancement is also referred to as entry slice phenomenon, or inflow enhancement.
Performing a presaturation slab on one side parallel to the slice can selectively destroy the MR signal from the in-flowing blood from this side of the slice. This allows the technique to be flow direction sensitive and to separate arteriograms or venograms. When the local magnetization of moving blood is selectively altered in a region, e.g. by selective excitation, it carries the altered magnetization with it when it moves, thus tagging the selected region for times on the order of the relaxation times.
For maximum flow signal, a complete new part of blood has to enter the slice every repetition (TR) period, which makes time of flight angiography sensitive to flow-velocity. The choice of TR and slice thickness should be appropriate to the expected flow-velocities because even small changes in slice thickness influences the performance of the TOF sequence. The use of sequential 2 dimensional Fourier transformation (2DFT) slices, 3DFT slabs, or multiple 3D slabs (chunks) are depending on the coverage required and the range of flow-velocities.
3D TOF MRA is routinely used for evaluating the Circle of Willis.

See also Magnetic Resonance Angiography and Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Angiography.
 
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Further Reading:
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MR–ANGIOGRAPHY(.pdf)
  News & More:
Magnetic resonance angiography: current status and future directions
Wednesday, 9 March 2011   by www.jcmr-online.com    
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