Biological aspects of sodium-23 imaging.
Biological aspects of sodium-23 imaging.
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钠 23 成像的生物学方面。
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a071964
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发表时间:
1984
影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
Hilal,SK
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文献类型:
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作者:
Maudsley,AA;Hilal,SK
Sodium is the second most abundant NMR-observable nucleus in living tissue, following protons. It is present in the extracellular space at a concentration of 160mM and is excluded to a high degree from within the living cell by the ATP-driven sodium-potassium pump giving an intracellular concentration of approximately 12mM to 20 mM. The average total sodium concentration in brain tissue is 50 mM. Pathologic changes, such as tissue injury, oedema or necrosis, which result in an expansion of the extracellular space or impairment of the sodium pump will result in an increase of total sodium concentration in tissue. Plate IV: A illustrates the changes expected for the NMR observation of sodium in comparison with that expected for proton, or water concentration, for certain abnormal conditions within the brain. Firstly, with a sodium concentration of 160mM in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and a water concentration of 99% in comparison with 84% in grey matter and 70% in white matter, the image contrast between normal brain and ventricles is higher with sodium imaging than proton imaging. Secondly, in simple oedema there is approximately a 10% increase in total tissue water, representing a 50% increase in the extracellular compartment. The total tissue sodium will therefore increase by almost 25% and the relative change in tissue sodium is greater than for water. Thirdly, in the case of cell death or tissue necrosis, the sodium pump breaks down and sodium enters the cell. The increase in sodium concentration has been observed to be as much as 300%-400%'-2 while the increase of water content is about 12%, 3 providing a much larger contrast for sodium concentration than for protons. Finally, in the case of neoplasms, there is a 10%—15% change in water concentration over the entire field of the tumour and the surrounding oedema. With sodium, one would expect to see several zones starting with simple oedema, followed by the non-necrotic tumour which may have lower sodium concentration due to the smaller extracellular compartment, and finally the central necrotic region will show a dramatic increase of sodium.