Imaging of endolymphatic and perilymphatic fluid after intravenous administration of single-dose gadodiamide

Abstract

To visualize endolymph as bright signal after intravenous injection of single-dose gadodiamide, we shortened the inversion time of heavily T2-weighted 3-dimensional (3D) fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) to 2050 ms. In 14 patients with suspected Meá nieà re's disease, we observed high signal of vestibular endolymph in all ears, including 6 ears without vestibular endolymphatic hydrops. We observed high signal of cochlear endo-lymph in 17 ears with cochlear endolymphatic hydrops but not 11 ears without cochlear en-dolymphatic hydrops.