[HTML][HTML] Recent technical developments and clinical research applications of sodium (23Na) MRI

LV Gast, T Platt, AM Nagel, T Gerhalter - Progress in Nuclear Magnetic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sodium is an essential ion that plays a central role in many physiological processes
including the transmembrane electrochemical gradient and the maintenance of the body's …

Novel strategies in nephrology: what to expect from the future?

S Copur, C Tanriover, F Yavuz, MJ Soler… - Clinical Kidney …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) will become the fifth global case of death by 2040. Its largest
impact is on premature mortality but the number of persons with kidney failure requiring …

Functional sodium MRI helps to measure corticomedullary sodium content in normal and diseased human kidneys

A Akbari, S Lemoine, F Salerno, TL Marcus, T Duffy… - Radiology, 2022 - pubs.rsna.org
Background To the knowledge of the authors, urinary osmolarity is the only tool currently
available to assess kidney corticomedullary gradient (CMG). Comparisons between CMG …

Kidney medullary sodium chloride concentrations induce neutrophil and monocyte extracellular DNA traps that defend against pyelonephritis in vivo

A Goldspink, J Schmitz, O Babyak, N Brauns… - Kidney International, 2023 - Elsevier
Urinary tract infections are common. Here, we delineate a role of extracellular DNA trap (ET)
formation in kidney antibacterial defense and determine mechanisms of their formation in …

Fibrosis imaging with multiparametric proton and sodium MRI in pig injury models

CW Rasmussen, N Bøgh, SK Bech… - NMR in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common and has huge implications for health and
mortality. It is aggravated by intrarenal fibrosis, but the assessment of fibrosis is limited to …

Compressed sensing in sodium magnetic resonance imaging: techniques, applications, and future prospects

Q Chen, NJ Shah, WA Worthoff - Journal of magnetic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sodium (23Na) yields the second strongest nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal in
biological tissues and plays a vital role in cell physiology. Sodium magnetic resonance …

Recent advances in sodium magnetic resonance imaging and its future role in kidney disease

A Akbari, CW McIntyre - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2023 - mdpi.com
Sodium imbalance is a hallmark of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Excess tissue sodium in
CKD is associated with hypertension, inflammation, and cardiorenal disease. Sodium …

Association of baseline serum sodium with long-term outcomes in newly diagnosed coronary heart disease patients without heart failure: a prospective cohort study

Z Cao, W Zhu, C Shen, B Gao, N Jin, F Li, B Zhang… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Sodium is crucial for maintaining cardiovascular health, especially in relation to heart failure.
The impact of baseline serum sodium concentrations on the outcomes of newly diagnosed …

RF coil design for accurate parallel imaging on 13C MRSI using 23Na sensitivity profiles

JD Sanchez‐Heredia, RB Olin, JT Grist… - Magnetic resonance …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop a coil‐based method to obtain accurate sensitivity profiles in 13C MRI
at 3T from the endogenous 23Na. An eight‐channel array is designed for 13C MR …

Clinically feasible B1 field correction for multi‐organ sodium imaging at 3 T

M Vaeggemose, RF Schulte, C Laustsen - NMR in Biomedicine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sodium MRI allows the non‐invasive quantification of intra‐organ sodium concentration. RF
inhomogeneity introduces uncertainty in this estimated concentration. B1 field corrections …