FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: using: for detecting an inflammation or an infection: Substance of the invention consists in detecting an inflammation or an infection by 13C-MR tomography, 13C-MR spectroscopy and/or 13C-MR spectroscopic tomography, which involves using an imaging medium containing hyperpolarised 13C-piruvate, and the inflammation or the infection is detected by a high intensity of 13C-signal from 13C-lactate or by a high rate of 13C-lactate formation.
EFFECT: enabling the high-reliability detection of the inflammation or infection centres.
11 cl, 2 dwg, 1 ex
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Dates
2015-03-10—Published
2010-03-25—Filed