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1 From the Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre (A.K.P.L., N.P., R.J.E., S.D.T.R., D.O.C., M.J.K.B.) and Department of Medicine A, Faculty of Medicine (N.P., S.D.T.R.), Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, DuCane Rd, London W12 0HS, England. Received April 7, 2003; revision requested June 24; final revision received November 6; accepted November 20. Supported by Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan, and Bracco, Milan, Italy. A.K.P.L. supported by the United Kingdom National Health Service Research and Development Initiative and the Kodak Scholarship, Royal College of Radiologists. Address correspondence to A.K.P.L. (e-mail: a.lim@imperial.ac.uk).
PURPOSE: To evaluate the pharmacokinetics of the microbubble contrast agent BR1.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty healthy volunteers were injected via arm vein with a 1.2-mL bolus of BR1. Ultrasonographic images of liver and right kidney and of spleen and left kidney were obtained intermittently for 5 minutes with low-mechanical-index software (to minimize microbubble destruction) that shows stationary microbubbles in green. Percentage total uptake was calculated as the number of green pixels in the region of interest for each organ over time, divided by the total pixels. Relative uptake, the ratio of total uptake in liver to that in right kidney and of total uptake in spleen to that in left kidney, and differential uptake, the difference in total uptake between liver and right kidney and between spleen and left kidney, were calculated. Total uptake for each organ was plotted against time, and the gradient of a best-fit straight line was calculated. Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to compare mean uptake values in each subject. Mann-Whitney U test was used for comparisons in sex and age.
RESULTS: Total uptake declined over 5 minutes in left and right kidney and in liver (from 88% ± 10% [1 minute] to 67% ± 14% [5 minutes]), but not in spleen (range, 90%–99%). Mean relative uptake ± 1 SD for spleen increased from 2.3 ± 0.7 (1 minute) to 3.7 ± 2.3 (5 minutes) (P = .005) but for liver was constant: 2.1 ± 0.9 (1 minute) and 2.3 ± 0.4 (5 minutes) (P = .06). Mean differential uptake ± 1 SD for spleen increased from 51.3% ± 14.9% (1 minute) to 65.0% ± 9.1% (5 minutes) (P = .002). Significant difference was seen over time in total uptake gradients between spleen and left kidney (P = .014) but not between liver and right kidney or right and left kidney. No difference was seen between men and women or with age.
CONCLUSION: BR1 produces spleen-specific enhancement that is longer (5 minutes) than the blood pool phase.
© RSNA, 2004
Index terms: Kidney, US, 81.12988 • Liver, US, 761.12988 • Microbubbles • Spleen, US, 775.12988 • Ultrasound (US), contrast media
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