Cryogenics free production of hyperpolarized 129Xe and 83Kr for biomedical MRI applications

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 237, Issue , 2013, Pages 23-33

  Hughes Riley, Theodore ^a   Six, Joseph S ^a   Lilburn, David M L ^a   Stupic, Karl F ^a   Dorkes, Alan C ^b   Shaw, Dominick E ^b   Pavlovskaya, Galina E ^a   Meersmann, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryogenic separation; Hyperpolarization; Kr 83; Krypton 83; Lung imaging; Oxygen partial pressure; Pulmonary MRI; Spin exchange optical pumping; T1 relaxation; Xe 129; Xenon 129

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC SEPARATION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; KR-83; KRYPTON-83; LUNG IMAGING; OXYGEN PARTIAL PRESSURE; SPIN EXCHANGE OPTICAL PUMPING; T1 RELAXATION; XE-129; XENON-129;

CRYOGENICS; EXTRACTION; KRYPTON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIXTURES; OPTICAL PUMPING; RECIPROCATING PUMPS;

XENON;

RATTUS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; ISOTOPE; KRYPTON; OXYGEN; RUBIDIUM; XENON;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CRYOGENIC SEPARATION; GAS; HISTOLOGY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; KR-83; KRYPTON-83; LUNG; LUNG IMAGING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN PARTIAL PRESSURE; PULMONARY MRI; RAT; SPIN-EXCHANGE OPTICAL PUMPING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; T(1) RELAXATION; XE-129; XENON-129;

CRYOGENIC SEPARATION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; KR-83; KRYPTON-83; LUNG IMAGING; OXYGEN PARTIAL PRESSURE; PULMONARY MRI; SPIN-EXCHANGE OPTICAL PUMPING; T(1) RELAXATION; XE-129; XENON-129;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; GASES; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ISOTOPES; KRYPTON; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RUBIDIUM; XENON ISOTOPES;

EID: 84885364905     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2013.09.008     Document Type: Article

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