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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1996
Scott M Rocklage, Los Gatos, CA (US);
John Kucharczyk, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Michael E Moseley, San Francisco, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a method of monitoring the vasodilatory or vasoconstrictive effects of a physiologically active substance administered to a human or non-human animal body, said method comprising the steps of: administering said substance into said body; administering into the systemic vasculature of said body a contrast enhancing amount of an intravascular paramagnetic metal containing magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent; subjecting said body to a magnetic resonance imaging procedure capable of generating from magnetic resonance signals from said body a series of temporally spaced images of at least a part of said body into which said agent passes, said procedure being a fast imaging procedure having an image acquisition time of less than five seconds; and detecting temporal variations in said signals or images whereby to monitor the vasoconstriction or vasodilation induced by said substance.