PURPOSE To determine the dose of contrast medium and the imaging strategy sufficient to
detect diffusion of low-molecular-weight gadolinium-containing contrast media into normal …

PURPOSE To compare MR contrast enhancement of intervertebral disk tissue after
intravenous administration of equimolar doses of an ionic and of a nonionic gadolinium …

PURPOSE To measure the rate of enhancement in immature intervertebral disks in
comparison with that of mature disks after intravenous administration of gadolinium …

Study Design. A comparison of contrast enhancement in the intervertebral disc from two
magnetic resonance imaging contrast media in experimental animals. Objectives. To test the …

PURPOSE To determine the feasibility of measuring diffusion into human intervertebral
disks by means of MR imaging with an intravenous nonionic gadolinium complex …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Experimental studies have shown that solutes diffuse more
slowly into degenerated intervertebral disks than into normal disks. A noninvasive clinical …

MR imaging after IV gadolinium-DTPA administration has demonstrated contrast
enhancement in traumatized lumbar intervertebral disks. To characterize the morbid …

A post contrast magnetic resonance imaging study has been performed in a wide population
of low back pain patients to investigate which radiological and phenotypic characteristics …

The authors determined whether a sufficient amount of intravenously administered
gadolinium enters the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to visibly shorten the T1 relaxation time …

Study Design. Magnetic resonance discography using gadolinium as an intradiscal contrast
agent was investigated in a prospective study. Objective. To evaluate the utility of magnetic …