Three-dimensional Visualization of Endolymphatic Hydrops after Intravenous Administration of Single-dose Gadodiamide

Shinji NAGANAWA; Masahiro YAMAZAKI; Hisashi KAWAI; Kiminori BOKURA; Michihiko SONE; Tsutomu NAKASHIMA

doi:10.2463/mrms.2012-0050

Technical Note

Three-dimensional Visualization of Endolymphatic Hydrops after Intravenous Administration of Single-dose Gadodiamide

Shinji NAGANAWA, Masahiro YAMAZAKI, Hisashi KAWAI, Kiminori BOKURA, Michihiko SONE, Tsutomu NAKASHIMA

Author information

Keywords: intravenous, magnetic resonance imaging, Ménière's disease, 3D imaging

JOURNAL OPEN ACCESS

2013 Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 147-151

DOI https://doi.org/10.2463/mrms.2012-0050

Browse “Advance online publication” version

Details

Abstract

Endolymphatic hydrops can be visualized with high contrast-to-noise ratio even after intravenous injection of single-dose gadolinium-based contrast material (IV-SD-GBCM) using HYDROPS-Mi2 images. We applied 3-dimensional rendering software to process HYDROPS-Mi2 images of 15 ears with and without suspected Ménière's disease and separately visualized the volumes of endo- and perilymph in patients with Ménière's disease even after IV-SD-GBCM. Such dimensional visualization will aid understanding of the pathophysiology of Ménière's disease.

Corresponding author

Register with J-STAGE for free!