Pineapple Juice as a contrast agent in MRCP Exams

Biomedical Engineering

This paper deals with the images obtained using pineapple juice as a oral contrast agent compared to a manufactured standard iron oxide based contrast, chelate gadolinium-gadopentetate dimeglumine in Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP). The research was done with 30 patients submitted to MRCP exams. On first day, a manufactured iron oxide based contrast (A) was offered and on the second day, pineapple juice (contrast B) was given to patients. Two radiologists R1 and R2 evaluated the images, classified them by giving the score (maximum of 4). On evaluating images developed by contrast A, R1 furnished an average score of 3.6 and R2 provided 3.47. similarly, On evaluating images developed by contrast B, R1 provided an average score of 3.54 and R2 provided 3.42. Thus, pineapple juice can be an alternative contrast agent in MRCP.

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