What is gadolinium?

Gadolinium examples

  • Gadolinium is an intravenous contrast agent used in MRI
  • Once injected, gadolinium makes certain tissues appear brighter on MRI and helps make certain diagnoses
  • In this example, the T1 weighted image doesn't show the brain tumor well
  • After injection of gadolinium contrast, the brain tumor is very easy to see on the T1-post contrast images