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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2011
Peter C. Van Zijl, Baltimore, MD (US);
Dmitri Artemov, Baltimore, MD (US);
Kannie Wai Yan Chan, Baltimore, MD (US);
Yoshinori Kato, Baltimore, MD (US);
Michael T. Mcmahon, Baltimore, MD (US);
Guanshu Liu, Baltimore, MD (US);
Peter C. Van Zijl, Baltimore, MD (US);
Dmitri Artemov, Baltimore, MD (US);
Kannie Wai Yan Chan, Baltimore, MD (US);
Yoshinori Kato, Baltimore, MD (US);
Michael T. McMahon, Baltimore, MD (US);
Guanshu Liu, Baltimore, MD (US);
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
A method for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging or spectroscopy on a MR scanner to detect tissue physiological parameters in one or more tissue areas in a human or non-human subject includes administering to the subject a contrast enhancing physiologically tolerable amount of a sugar that is non-labeled, subjecting the subject to an MR procedure capable of generating MR signals encoding at least one tissue area in the subject in which the sugar either passes or is taken up, detecting a temporal variation in the MR signals in the at least one tissue area after the administering the sugar, determining at least one tissue-related parameter from the temporal variation, and ascertaining whether the at least one tissue-related parameter is abnormal.