Hyperpolarized 3He gas production by metastability exchange optical pumping for magnetic resonance imaging

Optica Applicata

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 263-276

  Suchanek, Katarzyna ^a   Cieślar, Katarzyna ^a   Olejniczak, Zbigniew ^b   PaŁasz, Tadeusz ^a   Suchanek, Mateusz ^a   Dohnalik, Tomasz ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Hyperpolarized 3He; Low field MRI; Lung imaging

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL PUMPING;

HYPERPOLARIZED 3HE; LOW FIELD MRI; LUNG IMAGING;

HELIUM;

EID: 33644884737     PISSN: 00785466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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