Abstract
Pancreatic juice leakage to internal as well as external by distal pancreatectomy reported in recent studies.Method to suppress the leakage of internal pancreatic juice has not yet been established. Objective of this study is to visualize pancreatic juice distribution in pancreatic internal resulted from compression by using MRI and to evaluate quantitatively. First, isolated pig pancreas was observed by MRI. After observation, pancreas was compressed for 3 minutes by using a jig without moving the position. After 1 hour of compression, the image of pancreas was acquired by MRI. Then, the image before and after compression was compared. Imaging method was T2-weighted method to emphasize liquid by using the scanner of open type 0.2T MRI. Pancreas had been taken in a plane perpendicular to the jig to observe the effect of compression with 2.5mm spacing.As the result, at the position the white observed part did not exist before compression it is observed after compression.The position of the fat does not move by compression.Then, the white observed part which changes were observed it is inferred to be pancreatic juice.
