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01.12.2015 | Research article | Ausgabe 1/2015 Open Access

T_1ρ magnetic resonance imaging quantification of early articular cartilage degeneration in a rabbit model

Zeitschrift:: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders > Ausgabe 1/2015

Autoren:: Si Shen, Hao Wang, Jing Zhang, Fei Wang, Meng Chen

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Wichtige Hinweise

Si Shen and Hao Wang contributed equally to this work.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors’ contributions

Si Shen and Hao Wang contributed equally to this work, as the same first author. Si Shen: Study concept and design; preparation of animal model; reading the MRI scans and acquisition of data; histodiagnosis; analysis and interpretation of data; statistical analysis; revising manuscript critically for important intellectual content; final approval of the version to be published. Hao Wang: Study concept and design; preparation of animal model; statistical analysis; drafting of the manuscript; final approval of the version to be published. Jing Zhang: Preparation of animal model; reading the MRI scans and acquisition of data; final approval of the version to be published. Fei Wang: Analysis and interpretation of data; final approval of the version to be published. Meng Chen: Histodiagnosis; final approval of the version to be published. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Abbreviations

ECM

extracellular matrix

FCC

femoral condyle cartilage

FOV

field of view

LFCC

lateral femoral condyle cartilage

MFCC

medial femoral condyle cartilage

MRI

Magnetic resonance imaging

Osteoarthritis

proteoglycan

ROI

region of interest

T₂WI

T₂-weighted imaging

echo time

repetition time

TSL

time of spin-lock pulse

Background

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disorder worldwide, which is the major cause of mobility impaired and disabled in humans [ 1, 2]. It affects approximately 75 % of the population over 70 years of age, while a quarter of people aged over 55 have an episode of persistent knee pain, and there is a rapid increase in the number of the cases due to the aging of the population and the obesity epidemic [ 2– 5]. This suggests that OA will continue to be a large and growing public health problem in the future [ 5, 6].

The most recent accomplishments have indicated that articular cartilage degeneration is highly likely to play a key role in the pathogenesis of OA, and early diagnosis and intervention of cartilage degeneration before the onset of irreversible changes, are very important for the prevention and treatment of OA [ 2, 7, 8]. For this purpose, considerable efforts have recently been in search of non-invasive techniques to sensitively and accurately assess the prophase of cartilage degeneration [ 9]. Articular cartilage starts early to degenerate from extracellular matrix (ECM) metabolism imbalance, which mainly involves a gradual loss of proteoglycan (PG), collagen damage and increased water content, and these macromolecular (biochemical) changes are not accompanied by significant structural disturbances in the tissue [ 10– 13]. Among them, decreased PG content is an initiating factor and an important marker of early cartilage degeneration. Presently, it is believed that cartilage destruction results from large PG aggrecan degradation, which precedes the damage to collagen fibrillar network and is responsible for the whole changes [ 12– 15]. In short, early cartilage changes are characterized by PGs depletion, and detection of PG content can identify early cartilage degeneration. Although conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could provide excellent detection of morphological changes in the thickness and structure of articular cartilage, it has some difficulties in discriminating minimal changes associated with the early stage of degeneration before morphological or clinical alterations [ 2, 12, 13]. Given as such, newer MRI techniques have emerged for investigation of the physiology and biochemistry of cartilage.

T _1ρ MRI is one of the most promising techniques focused on PG quantification [ 2, 12, 16]. The longitudinal relaxation time that occurs during the application of T _1ρ imaging is referred to as spin–lattice relaxation in the rotating frame, or T _1ρ relaxation time. T _1ρ relaxation time (T _1ρ value) can be measured to describe the slow-motion interactions between the macromolecule protons and bulk water protons at high static fields in vivo, and therefore indirectly reflect PG content [ 17– 20]. As a consequence, T _1ρ imaging is mainly used for the evaluation of tissues composed partly of slow-frequency macromolecules, such as brain, articular cartilage, and intervertebral disc [ 21– 23]. In articular cartilage, several studies have reported that a decrease in PG content is the major factor in change of T _1ρ value, and which has been shown to detect cartilage changes [ 13, 23, 24]. However, T _1ρ is still available on a research basic, and further studies are required to evaluate its value in early degeneration, and optimize the scanning sequence to create a reliable quantitative scale [ 2, 25– 27]. Therefore, we designed the present study to confirm the sensibility and reliablity of T _1ρ in quantification of early cartilage degeneration with histology.

Methods

Ethics statement

The experimental protocol was approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. All procedures performed in this study involving animals were in accordance with the revised Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in the UK and Directive 2010/63/EU in Europe.

Preliminary experiment

In order to investigate the feasibility of this study, including training operations and sample size estimation, two healthy New Zealand white rabbits were performed the preliminary experiment first. Sample size was determined by the calculation of the pre-test results and the relevant literatures [ 12, 28].

Animal model

Thirty-two healthy New Zealand white rabbits (16 male and 16 female, with a mean age of 8 months and weighting from 2.0 to 3.0 kg) were used for the formal experiment. Rabbits were randomly numbered 1–32, and divided into 5 groups. Numbers 1 to 6 were included in Group A, 7 to 12 in Group B, 13 to 18 in Group C, 19 to 24 in Group D, and numbers 25 to 32 were included in Group E (among the 8 rabbits in Group E, 2 rabbits were randomly selected for each subgroup E _A, E _B, E _C, and E _D, which were considered as the blank controls of Group A, B, C, and D, respectively). The left knees of experimental groups (Group A, B, C, D) were served as the experimental side to establish articular cartilage models at different stages of early degeneration with papain, which is a known and validated mediator of inducing PG catabolism [ 28– 31], and the right knees acted as the control side. On the 1st, 4th, and 7th day of the experiment, the twenty-four rabbits of experimental groups were administered an injection of 0.5 ml of 1.6 % papain solution into the joint cavity of the left knee by using a 16-gauge hypodermic needle, and a control injection of the same amount of solution without papain in the right knee. The rabbits were sedated via ear vein injection of Ketamine (10 mg/kg) and Midazolam (1 mg/kg) while being monitored by an anesthesiologist for the period of the surgical procedure. Postoperatively, the rabbits were housed in individual cages without restriction of joint movement.

MRI Protocol

T _1ρ and T ₂-weighted images of the bilateral knee joints were obtained for 32 rabbits by using a clinical 3.0 T MRI scanner (GE discovery MR750; the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China) and human 8ch knee array coil. Group A, B, C, and D were scanned in sequence at 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks post-operation (from the last injection of papain) respectively, and rabbits in the subgroups (E _A, E _B, E _C, and E _D) underwent MRI in the same period for comparison. For the duration of the imaging session (approximately 15 mins), each rabbit was under general anesthesia with intravenous Ketamine (8 mg/kg) and Midazolam (0.8 mg/kg), and the protocol included 2 sequences: the first, conventional T ₂-weighted imaging (T ₂WI) for morphological evaluation were acquired using a fast spin-echo (FSE) imaging on sagittal view, with the following parameters: repetition time/echo time (TR/TE) = 2000 ms/85 ms, slice thickness/spacing (thn/spa) = 2 mm/0 mm, field of view (FOV) = 12 × 12 cm, acquisition matrix = 352 × 224, NEX = 2; the second MRI pulse sequence used for a series of T _1ρ-weighted sagittal images was 3D Magnetization-Prepared Angle-Modulated Partitioned k-Space Spoiled Gradient Echo Snapshots (3D MAPSS) with a spin-lock pulse amplitude of 500 Hz, under the following parameters: time of spin-lock pulse (TSL) = 0, 10, 40, or 80 ms, TR/TE = 7.8 ms/3.7 ms, thn/spa = 12 mm/0 mm, FOV = 12 × 12 cm, matrix = 256 × 128, NEX = 1, scan time = 3 min 33 s, and the B1 of spin-lock radio frequency (RF) was 0.145 Gauss.

Histology

Immediately after imaging, rabbits in each group were euthanized by intravenous pentobarbital (100 mg/kg), and both knees were harvested, formalin-fixed, and decalcified. Tissue blocks of 0.5 cm in thickness were harvested from the medial and lateral femoral condyle cartilage (MFCC and LFCC) on the sagittal plane, and made into paraffin-embedded tissue sections. Morphology of the chondrocytes was observed after hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining, and the PG content was determined by Safranin-O and Fast Green staining [ 12, 32].

T_1ρ quantification

Sun Advantage Workstation 4.5 (GE) was used for the post-processing of T _1ρ images. With an exponential decay, T _1ρ maps were reconstructed on a pixel-by-pixel basis by fitting a linear regression of the image intensity data to the following equation:

$$ \mathbf{S}\ \left(\mathbf{T}\mathbf{S}\mathbf{L}\right) = {\mathbf{S}}_{\mathbf{0}} \times \mathbf{exp}\ \left(-\mathbf{T}\mathbf{S}\mathbf{L}/{\mathbf{T}}_{\mathbf{1}\boldsymbol{\uprho }}\right), $$

where S is the signal intensity on T _1ρ images with the given TSL.

On the intermediate layer of the T _1ρ sagittal image, three regions of interest (ROIs) were placed from anterior to posterior on the images of MFCC and LFCC for measurement of the T _1ρ values. Each ROI was drawn using a circular tool by the radiologist with more than 10 years of the professional experience of MRI, and in order to reduce the influence of partial volume effect on results, the ROIs were not allowed to be set on the adjacent tissue. Average values of the three ROIs were calculated and recorded as the T _1ρ values of MFCC and LFCC, which were statistically analyzed.

Image interpretation

The interpretations of images acquired were determined by two radiologists with more than 10 years of experience, which blinded to all experimental information and the final histological diagnosis, and independently readed the T1ρ original and T2-weighted images of the 32 rabbits. Each observer performed the same interpretation twice, with a delay of two weeks, to assess intraobserver agreement. The image interpretation results were determined according to the agreement and disagreement between the two observers as follows: the same results and the final results after discussion.

Statistical analysis

Interobserver and intraobserver reliability of image interpretation was evaluated with the interclass and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC): poor (< 0.40), fair (0.40 – 0.59), good (0.60 – 0.74), and excellent (0.75 – 1.00). The mean ± standard deviation of measurements were calculated for the T _1ρ values of MFCC and LFCC. A normal distribution of our data was shown by using the normality test, and then the differences in the T ₁ρ values of LFCC and MFCC within experimental groups were compared using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Comparison of the T ₁ρ values in the control side between Group E and experimental groups was conducted with independent sample T-test. A P value of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Statistical analyses were performed with SPSS statistics software package, version 10.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA).

Results

Analysis of images

Two observers agreed perfectly that there was no imaging change of the femoral condyle cartilage (FCC) in the acquired T ₁ρ original and T ₂-weighted images of the 32 rabbits (Figures 1 and 2), in addition, there was no difference in images analysis between the first and the second interpretation by the same observer. Interclass and intraclass correlation coefficient were excellent, with k values of 1.00. T _1ρ pseudo-color images showed relatively significant chromatic aberration in the experimental sides compared with the control sides and Group E, and the color of the experimental sides were darker. Progressive changes from pale green to dark green were observed in the experimental sides of Group A-D (Fig. 3), which indicated the T _1ρ value increased gradually, and the process was consistent with the histological finding (Figs. 4 and 5).

T_1ρ value differences of intra- and inter-group

T _1ρ values of LFCC and MFCC in the bilateral knees of rabbits are shown in Table 1 : T _1ρ values of LFCC and MFCC on the experimental side (left side) in Group A were 43.89 ± 4.87 (95 % CI, 42.75 – 45.04) and 44.53 ± 5.10 (95 % CI, 43.3 – 45.73), and T _1ρ values on the control side were 37.69 ± 6.73 (95 % CI, 36.11 – 39.28) and 37.53 ± 7.57 (95 % CI, 35.75 – 39.31), respectively; T _1ρ values of LFCC and MFCC on the experimental side in Group B were 55.41 ± 6.99 (95 % CI, 53.44 – 57.38) and 55.33 ± 5.98 (95 % CI, 53.64 – 57.02), and T _1ρ values on the control side were 38.45 ± 5.83 (95 % CI, 36.81 – 40.08) and 38.72 ± 5.14 (95 % CI, 37.27 – 40.16), respectively; T _1ρ values of LFCC and MFCC on the experimental side in Group C were 68.74 ± 6.40 (95 % CI, 66.47 – 71.01) and 69.54 ± 6.39 (95 % CI, 67.26 – 71.8), and T _1ρ values on the control side were 39.10 ± 5.77 (95 % CI, 37.05 – 41.15) and 39.76 ± 5.62 (95 % CI, 37.76 – 41.75), respectively; T _1ρ values of LFCC and MFCC on the experimental side in Group D were 79.63 ± 12.26 (95 % CI, 73.54 – 85.73) and 74.91 ± 11.6 (95 % CI, 69.14 – 80.68), and T _1ρ values on the control side were 49.67 ± 8.46 (95 % CI, 45.46 – 53.88) and 47.36 ± 8.44 (95 % CI, 43.16 – 51.56), respectively. In the experimental groups, the T _1ρ values of the experimental side were significantly higher than the control side ( P < 0.05, Fig. 6). Fig. 7 showed that T _1ρ values of the experimental side increased gradually with the passage of post-operation time ( P < 0.05), and there was no significant difference in T _1ρ values of the control side among Group A, B, and C ( P > 0.05), while the T _1ρ values in Group D were obviously greater than in Group A, B, and C ( P < 0.05). There was no difference in T _1ρ values on control side between Group A, B, C and the subgroup E _A, E _B, and E _C ( P > 0.05, Table 1), while the T _1ρ values of LFCC and MFCC on the control side in Group D were obviously greater than in subgroup E _D ( P < 0.05, Table 1) . There was no significant difference in T _1ρ values between the LFCC and MFCC, within the bilateral knees of Group A-D ( P > 0.05, Table 1). Finally, No difference of T _1ρ values existed in Group E ( P > 0.05).

Table 1

T _1ρ values of LFCC and MFCC in the bilateral knees of rabbits expressed as the mean ± standard deviation

T1ρ (ms)	Group A (1 week)		Group B (2 weeks)		Group C (3 weeks)		Group D (4 weeks)		Group E ^e (Blank control)
T1ρ (ms)	Experimental side	Control side ^a	Experimental side	Control Side ^b	Experimental side	Control Side ^c	Experimental side	Control Side ^d	E _A right side ^a	E _B right side ^b	E _C right side ^c	E _D right side ^d
LFCC	43.89 ± 4.87	37.69 ± 6.73	55.41 ± 6.99	38.45 ± 5.83	68.74 ± 6.40	39.10 ± 5.77	79.63 ± 12.26	49.67 ± 8.46	39.11 ± 4.51	41.77 ± 8.05	39.38 ± 7.6	45.33 ± 12.42
95 % CI	42.75-45.04	36.11-39.28	53.44-57.38	36.81-40.08	66.47-71.01	37.05-41.15	73.54-85.73	45.46-53.88	36.79-41.44	37.31-46.23	33.53-45.23	14.48-76.18
MFCC	44.53 ± 5.10	37.53 ± 7.57	55.33 ± 5.98	38.72 ± 5.14	69.54 ± 6.39	39.76 ± 5.62	74.91 ± 11.6	47.36 ± 8.44	38.50 ± 6.48	40.77 ± 5.43	41.43 ± 6.42	35.08 ± 4.88
95 % CI	43.3-45.73	35.75-39.31	53.64-57.02	37.27-40.16	67.26-71.8	37.76-41.75	69.14-80.68	43.16-51.56	35.17-41.80	37.75-43.78	36.49-46.37	22.94-47.22

^*There was no significant difference in T _1ρ values between the LFCC and MFCC, within the bilateral knees of Group A, B, C, and D ( P > 0.05)

^aBetween the control side of Group A and the subgroup E _A, no difference in T _1ρ values of LFCC existed (t = −0.98, P = 0.33), and also no difference in T _1ρ values of MFCC existed (t = −1.05, P = 0.30)

^bBetween the control side of Group B and the subgroup E _B, no difference in T _1ρ values of LFCC existed (t = −1.12, P = 0.27), and also no difference in T _1ρ values of MFCC existed (t = −1.51, P = 0.14)

^cBetween the control side of Group C and the subgroup E _C, no difference in T _1ρ values of LFCC existed (t = −1.51, P = 0.14), and also no difference in T _1ρ values of MFCC existed (t = −1.30, P =0.20)

^dThe T _1ρ value of LFCC on control side in Group D was significantly higher than in subgroup E _D (t =2.49, P = 0.02), and the T _1ρ value of MFCC was obviously greater than in subgroup E _D too (t = 4.70, P = 0.00)

^eNo difference of T _1ρ values existed in Group E ( P > 0.05)

Histodiagnosis

This study performed the injections of papain on rabbits to produce a decline in PG content for setting up the animal models of early articular cartilage degeneration, and the histodiagnosis substantiated the occurrence of biochemical changes in the FCC, which with little change in morphology. Figure 8 showed that the LFCC and MFCC of the specimens were smooth and devoid of morphologic alteration upon histological inspection. Figure 4 revealed early degenerative changes in FCC on the experimental side because of the gradually disappearing of normal chondrocytes and the fibrosis of ECM. And there was a visible reduction in histological staining of PG by Safranin-O for papain-treated FCC as compared with control FCC, and the loss of PG was proportional to the degree of cartilage degeneration, meanwhile the range of Fast Green staining of the collagen fibers gradually increased (Figs. 4 and 5). However, there were no significant change in the FCC on control side (except in Group D) and Group E; there was mild degeneration in the FCC on control side of Group D. Histological verification was determined by the observer with the professional experience of pathology.

Discussion

In the present study, the primary purpose was to investigate whether T _1ρ MRI could be uesd as a means to detect biochemical changes prior to the morphologic alterations in articular cartilage with histology. Out of the conventional MRI methods, T ₂WI is commonly used to depict the morphological changes in cartilage, such as fibrillation, fissure, and partial- or full-thickness defect, which are preceded by biochemical changes of ECM [ 12, 33, 34]. Even though it can clearly show morphological abnormalities of cartilage, and has relatively high detection rates for the late cartilage degeneration, which mostly indicate the progressed stage of OA with irreversible variation of the cartilage, it was limited in detecting ultrastructural changes associated with early cartilage degeneration [ 2, 35, 36]. In this study, T ₂-weighted images were used to assess whether the morphologic alterations had occurred in the FCC of rabbit models or not, and were taken as a representative of conventional MRI to contrast with T1ρ images on the capability for characterizing the micro-changes in the prophase of cartilage degeneration. The histological examination demonstrated that early cartilage degeneration had already existed in the experimental sides of Group A-D, however, T ₂WI showed there was no obvious imaging change of the cartilage, and T _1ρ was highly sensitive to reflecting the biochemical micro-changes due to the early stages of FCC degeneration. It had suggested that T _1ρ MRI was a physiological imaging technique for detecting the biochemical state and micro information of tissue at the molecular level, and can identify early lesions which cannot be identified by routine MRI sequences.

By mean of an animal model, this study aimed to measure the T _1ρ value of FCC for quantitative reflection of PG depletion, which was the earliest finding of early cartilage degeneration. Toward this end, we successfully established a rabbit model of PG degradation inducing FCC degeneration. Histodiagnosis verified that the model highly replicated the pathological process of early articular cartilage degeneration, and

Group A, B, C, and D were at different stages of early degeneration, which ensured the reliability of the results. In our experiment, to select the rabbit as a model was for the reason that there was a high degree of similarity between the biochemical properties of articular cartilage in a rabbit and a human, such as the main composition of ECM, the morphology and alignment of chondrocytes, and the pathological mechanism of cartilage degeneration in rabbits also resembled human being [ 37, 38]. We chose to focus on the FCC mostly because that was readily identified by using surface coil for generating images, and easy to dissect from the knee joint thereby histological examination.

Histological sections showed that there was a visible reduction in staining intensity of PG in papain-treated cartilage as compared with control cartilage, and the red of staining in Group A-D gradually faded, while the normal morphology of chondrocytes gradually disappeared with the emergence of fibrosis in ECM over time. All of that indicated the degree of early cartilage degeneration progressively increased from Group A to Group D, and PG depletion was the characteristics of early cartilage degeneration, its loss was proportional to the degree of cartilage degeneration. With comprehensive analysis of T _1ρ imaging, a strong correlation was revealed between changes in PG content and T _1ρ value. The result of this study showed a obviously difference in T _1ρ values of FCC between experimental side and control side, the T _1ρ values on the experimental side were significantly higher than the control side. Moreover, there was a trend of gradual increase in T _1ρ values with the passage of post-operation time (after the last papain injection). This result was consistent with the loss of PG determined by the histodiagnosis, which suggested that a decreased PG content induced the increase of T _1ρ value, and the increased T _1ρ value reflected the decreased PG content. However, there was no significant difference in T _1ρ values between the control sides of Group A-C and the blank group (Group E), and histological examination showed that there was no cartilage degeneration in the control sides (except Group D) and Group E, which indicated the scientific validity of the case–control design and the objective presence of T _1ρ relaxation time extension in the experimental-side cartilage. Therefore, it can be clearly demonstrated based on the above analyses that the results of the present study were supported by the histological evidence, the increased T _1ρ value suggests early cartilage degeneration, and was positively correlated with the degree of cartilage degeneration. In addition, T _1ρ values increased in the control sides of Group D, and the phenomenon was consistent with the histological result. We speculated that this result was caused by the compensatory overload in the control-side cartilage due to cartilage damage of the experimental side, and such speculations surely warrants further investigations. Furthermore, we also found that 1 week after the last injection of papain, there was a significant difference in T _1ρ values of Group A between the experimental side and control side prior to cartilage degeneration shown by histological examination. This showed that the sensitivity of T _1ρ imaging may exceed that of histological examination for ultra-early low-level cartilage lesions, however, which should be verified by further research.

Conclusions

In conclusion, the main contribution of this study lay in the investigation of T _1ρ imaging to quantitatively reflect biochemical changes in the initial phase of cartilage degeneration. The results suggested that T _1ρ value was a sensitive indicator for accurately detecting early articular cartilage degeneration, its increasing was closely related to the degenerative change. Therefore, T _1ρ MRI could be potentially used for the prospective and quantitative evaluation of early cartilage degeneration, and might allow intervention of cartilage degeneration at the earliest stages. However, T _1ρ technique was still available with only a few types of MR scanners (minimum usable field strength of 3.0 T) with specialized modified pulse sequences on a research basic, and it had not been widely applied [ 2, 25, 26]. The present study is also a preliminary exploration of the T _1ρ imaging in the evaluation of articular cartilage, and there were some difficulties with the T _1ρ technique, such as the repeatability of T _1ρ imaging, the setting of scanning parameters, the design of the T _1ρ image reconstruction program and the quality of the imaging. But despite all this, with the improvement of T _1ρ technique and optimization of the scanning sequence, T _1ρ MRI may be a useful tool for detecting early cartilage degeneration in clinical practice.

Acknowledgments

The authors thank Prof. Si-run Liu (Medical Imaging Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University) for valuable discussion.

This study was funded by the Medical Science and Technology Research Fund of Guangdong Province, China (Grant NO: A2012340) and the Cultivation of Scientific Research Fund of the First Clinical Medical College, JiNan University, Guangzhou, China (Grant NO: 2014108).

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Titel: T1ρ magnetic resonance imaging quantification of early articular cartilage degeneration in a rabbit model
Autoren:: Si Shen
Hao Wang
Jing Zhang
Fei Wang
Meng Chen
Publikationsdatum: 01.12.2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-015-0810-0
Verlag: BioMed Central
Zeitschrift: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders BMC series – open, inclusive and trusted
Ausgabe 1/2015
Elektronische ISSN: 1471-2474

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T_1ρ magnetic resonance imaging quantification of early articular cartilage degeneration in a rabbit model

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Background

Methods

Ethics statement

Preliminary experiment

Animal model

MRI Protocol

Histology

T_1ρ quantification

Image interpretation

Statistical analysis

Results

Analysis of images

T_1ρ value differences of intra- and inter-group

Histodiagnosis

Discussion

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

Competing interests

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Competing interests

Authors’ contributions

Background

Methods

Ethics statement

Preliminary experiment

Animal model

MRI Protocol

Histology

T1ρ quantification

Image interpretation

Statistical analysis

Results

Analysis of images

T1ρ value differences of intra- and inter-group

Histodiagnosis

Discussion

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

Competing interests

Authors’ contributions

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