QUANTITATE 23NA EQUILIBRIUM MAGNETIZATION USING MULTIPLE QUANTUM FILTERED NMR

使用多重量子过滤 NMR 定量 23NA 平衡磁化

• 批准号: 6121060
• 负责人: ARIJITT BORTHAKUR
• 金额: $ 2.44万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-30 至 1999-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6121060
• 关键词: aging; arthritis; biomedical resource; connective tissue; human tissue; proteins; radiology; skeletal system; technology /technique

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a cartilage degenerative disease that leads to loss of proper function of the tissue. Early degeneration of OA cartilage is associated with the loss of proteoglycans (PG). We have recently shown that it is possible to measure PG loss in cartilage indirectly by quantitation of sodium by 23Na MRI of articular cartilage in-vivo and in-vitro. We want to further characterize this sodium by classifying it into two species based on their environments. In biological tissues there exists free and bound sodium fractions. The free sodium is usually in isotropic motion whereas bound sodium undergoes anisotropic motion and hence the 23Na NMR signal decay is biexponential in these tissues. We are attempting to precisely quantify the amount of bound sodium in phantoms and cartilage by 23Na Multiple Quantum Filtered (MQF) NMR. By measuring the equilibrium magnetization by both SQ and MQF signals will enable one to quantitate bond fraction of sodium. We ha ve measured this in phantoms and currently in the process of measuring in cartilage.

骨关节炎（OA）是一种软骨退行性疾病