MR Cholangiography with Gd-EOB-DTPA: Biliary Enhancement Dynamics in Clinical Patients

Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance cholangiography with Gd-BOPTA and Gd-EOB-DTPA in healthy subjects.

PURPOSE To evaluate the biliary enhancement dynamics of the two gadolinium chelates Gd-BOPTA (MultiHance) and Gd-EOB-DTPA (Primovist) in normal healthy subjects. MATERIAL AND METHODS Ten healthy volunteers were evaluated with both agents by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging at 1.5T using a breath-hold gradient-echo T1-weighted VIBE sequence. The relative signal intensity (SI) differences betwee...

Accumulation of Bile in the Gallbladder: Evaluation by means of Serial Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Cholangiography with Gadolinium Ethoxybenzyl Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic Acid

The aim of this study was to evaluate the process of biliary excretion of gadolinium ethoxybenzyl diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (Gd-EOB-DTPA) into the biliary tract and to assess the accumulation patterns in the gallbladder using MR cholangiography obtained with Gd-EOB-DTPA which is a liver-specific hepatobiliary contrast agent. Seventy-five patients underwent Gd-EOB-DTPA enhanced MR imagi...

Ischemic-type biliary lesions following liver transplantation: Evaluation with Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR cholangiography

Gd-EOB-DTPA combined with Gd-DTPA: Hepatobiliary contrast with familiar hepatic dynamic contrast enhancement

PURPOSE: Hepatobiliary contrast agents add an additional form of image contrast to hepatic magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, allowing differentiation of tumors which have functional hepatic and biliary components from those without. Gd-EOB-DTPA has sufficiently significant elimination via the hepatobiliary pathway to make it a feasible contrast agent in the time allotted to a typical clinical ab...

The value of Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging in characterizing cirrhotic nodules with atypical enhancement on Gd-DTPA-enhanced MR images

PURPOSE To evaluate the utility of Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in characterizing atypically enhanced cirrhotic nodules detected on conventional Gd-DTPA-enhanced MR images. MATERIALS AND METHODS We enrolled 61 consecutive patients with 88 atypical nodules seen on conventional Gd-DTPA-enhanced MR images who underwent Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI within a 3-month period. Us...