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Self‐gated, dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging with compressed‐sensing reconstruction for evaluating endothelial permeability in the aortic root of atherosclerotic mice

High‐risk atherosclerotic plaques are characterized by active inflammation and abundant leaky microvessels. We present a self‐gated, dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE‐MRI) acquisition with compressed sensing reconstruction and apply it to assess longitudinal changes in endoth...

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Autores principales: Calcagno, Claudia, David, John A., Motaal, Abdallah G., Coolen, Bram F., Beldman, Thijs, Corbin, Alexandra, Kak, Arnav, Ramachandran, Sarayu, Pruzan, Alison, Sridhar, Arthi, Soler, Raphael, Faries, Christopher M., Fayad, Zahi A., Mulder, Willem J. M., Strijkers, Gustav J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10078106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36031706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nbm.4823
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author Calcagno, Claudia
David, John A.
Motaal, Abdallah G.
Coolen, Bram F.
Beldman, Thijs
Corbin, Alexandra
Kak, Arnav
Ramachandran, Sarayu
Pruzan, Alison
Sridhar, Arthi
Soler, Raphael
Faries, Christopher M.
Fayad, Zahi A.
Mulder, Willem J. M.
Strijkers, Gustav J.
author_facet Calcagno, Claudia
David, John A.
Motaal, Abdallah G.
Coolen, Bram F.
Beldman, Thijs
Corbin, Alexandra
Kak, Arnav
Ramachandran, Sarayu
Pruzan, Alison
Sridhar, Arthi
Soler, Raphael
Faries, Christopher M.
Fayad, Zahi A.
Mulder, Willem J. M.
Strijkers, Gustav J.
author_sort Calcagno, Claudia
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description High‐risk atherosclerotic plaques are characterized by active inflammation and abundant leaky microvessels. We present a self‐gated, dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE‐MRI) acquisition with compressed sensing reconstruction and apply it to assess longitudinal changes in endothelial permeability in the aortic root of Apoe(−/−) atherosclerotic mice during natural disease progression. Twenty‐four, 8‐week‐old, female Apoe(−/−) mice were divided into four groups (n = 6 each) and imaged with self‐gated DCE‐MRI at 4, 8, 12, and 16 weeks after high‐fat diet initiation, and then euthanized for CD68 immunohistochemistry for macrophages. Eight additional mice were kept on a high‐fat diet and imaged longitudinally at the same time points. Aortic‐root pseudo‐concentration curves were analyzed using a validated piecewise linear model. Contrast agent wash‐in and washout slopes (b ( 1 ) and b ( 2 )) were measured as surrogates of aortic root endothelial permeability and compared with macrophage density by immunohistochemistry. b ( 2 ), indicating contrast agent washout, was significantly higher in mice kept on an high‐fat diet for longer periods of time (p = 0.03). Group comparison revealed significant differences between mice on a high‐fat diet for 4 versus 16 weeks (p = 0.03). Macrophage density also significantly increased with diet duration (p = 0.009). Spearman correlation between b ( 2 ) from DCE‐MRI and macrophage density indicated a weak relationship between the two parameters (r = 0.28, p = 0.20). Validated piecewise linear modeling of the DCE‐MRI data showed that the aortic root contrast agent washout rate is significantly different during disease progression. Further development of this technique from a single‐slice to a 3D acquisition may enable better investigation of the relationship between in vivo imaging of endothelial permeability and atherosclerotic plaques' genetic, molecular, and cellular makeup in this important model of disease.
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spelling pubmed-100781062023-04-07 Self‐gated, dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging with compressed‐sensing reconstruction for evaluating endothelial permeability in the aortic root of atherosclerotic mice Calcagno, Claudia David, John A. Motaal, Abdallah G. Coolen, Bram F. Beldman, Thijs Corbin, Alexandra Kak, Arnav Ramachandran, Sarayu Pruzan, Alison Sridhar, Arthi Soler, Raphael Faries, Christopher M. Fayad, Zahi A. Mulder, Willem J. M. Strijkers, Gustav J. NMR Biomed Research Articles High‐risk atherosclerotic plaques are characterized by active inflammation and abundant leaky microvessels. We present a self‐gated, dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE‐MRI) acquisition with compressed sensing reconstruction and apply it to assess longitudinal changes in endothelial permeability in the aortic root of Apoe(−/−) atherosclerotic mice during natural disease progression. Twenty‐four, 8‐week‐old, female Apoe(−/−) mice were divided into four groups (n = 6 each) and imaged with self‐gated DCE‐MRI at 4, 8, 12, and 16 weeks after high‐fat diet initiation, and then euthanized for CD68 immunohistochemistry for macrophages. Eight additional mice were kept on a high‐fat diet and imaged longitudinally at the same time points. Aortic‐root pseudo‐concentration curves were analyzed using a validated piecewise linear model. Contrast agent wash‐in and washout slopes (b ( 1 ) and b ( 2 )) were measured as surrogates of aortic root endothelial permeability and compared with macrophage density by immunohistochemistry. b ( 2 ), indicating contrast agent washout, was significantly higher in mice kept on an high‐fat diet for longer periods of time (p = 0.03). Group comparison revealed significant differences between mice on a high‐fat diet for 4 versus 16 weeks (p = 0.03). Macrophage density also significantly increased with diet duration (p = 0.009). Spearman correlation between b ( 2 ) from DCE‐MRI and macrophage density indicated a weak relationship between the two parameters (r = 0.28, p = 0.20). Validated piecewise linear modeling of the DCE‐MRI data showed that the aortic root contrast agent washout rate is significantly different during disease progression. Further development of this technique from a single‐slice to a 3D acquisition may enable better investigation of the relationship between in vivo imaging of endothelial permeability and atherosclerotic plaques' genetic, molecular, and cellular makeup in this important model of disease. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-09-23 2023-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10078106/ /pubmed/36031706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nbm.4823 Text en © 2022 The Authors. NMR in Biomedicine published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Articles
Calcagno, Claudia
David, John A.
Motaal, Abdallah G.
Coolen, Bram F.
Beldman, Thijs
Corbin, Alexandra
Kak, Arnav
Ramachandran, Sarayu
Pruzan, Alison
Sridhar, Arthi
Soler, Raphael
Faries, Christopher M.
Fayad, Zahi A.
Mulder, Willem J. M.
Strijkers, Gustav J.
Self‐gated, dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging with compressed‐sensing reconstruction for evaluating endothelial permeability in the aortic root of atherosclerotic mice
title Self‐gated, dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging with compressed‐sensing reconstruction for evaluating endothelial permeability in the aortic root of atherosclerotic mice
title_full Self‐gated, dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging with compressed‐sensing reconstruction for evaluating endothelial permeability in the aortic root of atherosclerotic mice
title_fullStr Self‐gated, dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging with compressed‐sensing reconstruction for evaluating endothelial permeability in the aortic root of atherosclerotic mice
title_full_unstemmed Self‐gated, dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging with compressed‐sensing reconstruction for evaluating endothelial permeability in the aortic root of atherosclerotic mice
title_short Self‐gated, dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging with compressed‐sensing reconstruction for evaluating endothelial permeability in the aortic root of atherosclerotic mice
title_sort self‐gated, dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging with compressed‐sensing reconstruction for evaluating endothelial permeability in the aortic root of atherosclerotic mice
topic Research Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10078106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36031706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nbm.4823
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