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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers better soft tissue contrast than most other diagnostic imaging techniques. For this reason, it is fast becoming one of the most important clinical imaging techniques for the diagnosis of central nervous system in recent years. An appropriate animal model is essential for the study of etiology of all diseases. Further more, the brain ischemia and acute stroke is has become the leading cause of death in Taiwan recently. Yet, there is so far no appropriate stroke animal model developed for MRI studies. To fill this void, the strive for the development of an appropriate animal model for cat acute ischemic stroke and an appropriate anesthetization method for MRI examination becomes our main goal. Our method can be divided into two stages. First, serum creatine kinase (CK) electrophoresis and two MRI diagnosis pulse sequences 'T2 - weighted imaging (T2WI)' and 'Diffusion - weighted imaging (DWI)' are used for the feasibility inspection. Secondly, the efficacy of three MRI methods: Magnetization transfer contrast (MTC) along with two mentioned above in these use as a diagnostic modality on stoke animal model are evaluated. The main results of this study can be stated as following: 1. Long term anesthesia of cat:In this study, 'Thiamylal' is found to be a good anesthesia for cat, as it provides a stable surgery period (26 hour). The other good feature of thiamylal is its lower toxicity for liver and kidney of the laboratory animals.2. Experimental surgery of cat acute ischemic stroke:Highly stable and feasible animal model can be successfully developed by used of CK electrophoresis analysis and MRI diagnosis method.3. The Comparisom of three MRI methods: In indentifyng long lesion term(>12 hours), T2WI appears to be, based on our results a better technique than DWI and MTC. However, the DWI and MTC techniques seem to be superior in providing earlier detection of lesions again based on our preliminary findings. The gross finding result devotailed the T2 WI result. But the DWI and MTC results are not devotailed the gross finding result.
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