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Article: Research from A. Oto and co-authors provides new data about Crohn disease.(Report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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"The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of quantitative analysis of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) data in the detection of bowel inflammation in patients with Crohn's disease. Eleven patients who underwent magnetic resonance enterography for known or suspected Crohn's disease and had colonoscopy or surgery within 4 weeks of imaging were included in this Study," researchers in the United States report (see also Crohn Disease).
"DCE-MRI data were acquired using a 1.5-T scanner with temporal resolution of 5 to 12 seconds for approximately 5 to 7 minutes. A two-compartment pharmacokinetic model was used to analyze the ...