Early Inflammatory Response following Traumatic Brain Injury in Rabbits Using USPIO- and Gd-Enhanced MRI

Table 2

Changes of sizes of edema and contrast-enhancement during dynamic monitoring.

Number of groups	Number of rabbits	24 h after TBI			48 h after TBI			72 h after TBI			120 h after TBI
		T2WI	Gd-T1WI	USPIO-T1WI	T2WI	Gd-T1WI	USPIO-T1WI	T2WI	Gd-T1WI	USPIO-T1WI	T2WI	Gd-T1WI	USPIO-T1WI
1	1	0.16	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	2	0.25	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	3	0.22	0.15	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	4	0.2	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	5	0.23	0.21	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2	1	1.6	1.6	0	3.3	2.3	0	—	—	—	—	—	—
	2	0.55	0.5	0	1.04	0.68	0	—	—	—	—	—	—
	3	0.6	0.43	0	0.74	0.52	0	—	—	—	—	—	—
	4	0.16	0	0	0.16	0.1	0	—	—	—	—	—	—
	5	1.1	0.8	0	2.4	1.86	0	—	—	—	—	—	—
3	1	0.22	0	0	0.34	0.2	0	0.4	0.15	0.16	—	—	—
	2	0.46	0	0	0.59	0.4	0	0.82	0.46	0.32	—	—	—
	3	0.05	0	0	0.08	0.08	0	0.17	0.17	0.2	—	—	—
	4	1	0.26	0	1	0.21	0	1.3	0.3	0.28	—	—	—
	5	0.48	0	0	0.96	0.3	0	1.02	0.78	0.8	—	—	—
4	1	1	0.26	0	1.2	0.39	0	1.7	0.6	0.37	1.1	0.21	0.56
	2	0.1	0.1	0	0.16	0.1	0	0.16	0.12	0	0	0	0.13
	3	0.25	0.12	0	0.81	0.3	0	1.02	0.6	0.22	1.3	0.12	0.3
	4	0.25	0.12	0	0.81	0.21	0	1.62	0.41	0.4	1.3	0.19	0.46
	5	0.12	0	0	0.72	0.16	0	0.75	0.25	0.22	0.59	0.06	0.3