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Characterization of tumor imaging with microbubble-based ultrasound contrast agent, sonazoid, in rabbit liver.

Abstract
In order to investigate improvement of hepatic tumor detectability by Sonazoid with phase inversion imaging, the contrast effects on the liver of metastatic carcinoma-model rabbits were evaluated by videodensitometry and visual assessment. Correlation between the contrast enhancement of Sonazoid and histopathology was examined using the same animals. Electron microscopy was performed on hepatic tissue from another healthy rabbits to identify the distribution of Sonazoid microbubbles. As a result, all tumors were smaller than 12 mm in diameter, and after intravenous injection of Sonazoid, they were surrounded with a ring of enhanced signal during the early phase (up to 30 s), followed by a clear contrast defect during the delayed phase (after 10 min). Histopathologic observation revealed that the ring-enhancement was caused by neovasculature in the tumor, and the contrast defects corresponded to living and dead parts of tumors, which lack Kupffer cells. Videodensitometric differences between tumor and healthy tissue markedly increased at delayed phase, and visual detectability of tumors was improved when Sonazoid was used. Ultrastructural analysis showed microbubble-like structures in Kupffer cells, which indicated that Sonazoid microbubbles were taken up with these cells. In conclusion, Sonazoid, used with phase inversion imaging, greatly increases the detectability of small hepatic tumors by highlighting neovascularity at early phase and providing clear contrast defects due to absence of Kupffer cells, which take up Sonazoid microbubbles, at delayed phase.
AuthorsRira Watanabe, Manabu Matsumura, Chun-Jen Chen, Yuki Kaneda, Masayoshi Fujimaki
JournalBiological & pharmaceutical bulletin (Biol Pharm Bull) Vol. 28 Issue 6 Pg. 972-7 (Jun 2005) ISSN: 0918-6158 [Print] Japan
PMID15930729 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Contrast Media
  • Ferric Compounds
  • Oxides
  • Sonazoid
  • Iron
Topics
  • Animals
  • Contrast Media
  • Ferric Compounds
  • Iron
  • Liver (diagnostic imaging, ultrastructure)
  • Liver Neoplasms, Experimental (diagnostic imaging, pathology)
  • Male
  • Microbubbles
  • Oxides
  • Rabbits
  • Ultrasonography

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