Myocardial MRI Using Paramagnetic Contrast Enhancement with Manganese- Metoxyisobutylisonitryle (Mn-MIBI) in Animals

Aim: to evaluate with MRI technique the uptake of paramagnetic complex Mn-methoxyisobutylisonitrile (MIBI) to myocardium in rats in normal control animals and in experimental infarction. Material and methods. Complex Mn-MOBI was obtained with one-stage synthesis from manganese (II) carbonate and methoxyisobutylisonitrile hydroxide (produced by the Laboratory of technology and control of radiopharmaceuticals of the A.I. Burnazyan Russian state federal medical and biophysics Center), obtaining finally the 0.5 M solution of Mn-MIBI at pH = 6.3. The Mn-MIBI was injected intravenously slowly to sleeping rats (Telazol, i/m), as 0.05 ml of 0,5 M solution per Kg of BW. For this study nine normal control Whistar rats were employed as well as ten animals with previously induced anterior myocardial infarction of the left ventricle (all males). MRI scanning in T1-weighted spin-echo has been carried out with TR = 500 ms and TE = 15 ms, in axial and frontal slices as thin as 2-2.5 mm, to the matrix 256 х 256, with the field of view as large as 200 х 200 mm. The uptake was scored visually as change in intensity of T1-weighted MRI frontal scans of the whole body of the animals, of axial scans of chest and heart; and also quantitatively, with calculating for the T1-weighted MRI the index of enhancement (IE) of intensity per voxel, as : IE = (MeanInt of T1-w.MRI)Mn-MIBI / (MeanInt of T1-w.MRI)initial Results. Visually on whole-body T1-weighted SE frontal scans the MN-MIBI induced increase of intensity of the heart image, essentially equal for all parts of the left ventricle and less intense over the right ventricle. The values of the IE were over 2.5 for all parts of the left ventricle, whereas only 1.8-1.9 in case of the septum. IE of the right ventricle did not differ significantly when compared to the LV values. When injected to animals with experimental myocardial infarction the Mn-MIBI did not induced any essential changes of intensity in non-perfused regiones, with IE = 1.19 ± 0. 08, but raised the intensity over intact lateral wall of the left ventricle, with IE = 2.65 ± 0.14, and also over intact anterior wall, with IE = 2.28 ± 0.17. Conclusion. Complexonate Mn-MIBI provides well enough intense enhancement of myocardium in T1-SE MRI and makes possible to image severe disorders of myocardial blood flow in experimental models. The Mn-MIBI complex can be suggested as basic molecule for nearest future design of paramagnetic contrast agents for myocarrdial perfusion imaging, as well as for other organs taking up the MIBI. Manganese also is conceivable to be employed for labelling of other complexones currently in use in nuclear medicine.

Mn-МИБИ, Mn-метоксиизобутилизонитрил, МРТ миокарда, Mn-MIBI, Mn-methoxyisobutylisonitrile, MRI of myocardium

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