Feasibility of human lung ventilation imaging using highly polarized naturally abundant xenon and optimized three-dimensional steady-state free precession

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 346-352

  Stewart, Neil J ^a   Norquay, Graham ^a   Griffiths, Paul D ^a   Wild, Jim M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D steady state free precession; hyperpolarized gas; lung ventilation imaging; naturally abundant xenon 129

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL PUMPING; SMOKE; XENON;

HYPERPOLARIZED; LASER DIODE ARRAYS; LUNG VENTILATION; NATURALLY ABUNDANT XENON-129; PULMONARY VENTILATION; SPIN EXCHANGE OPTICAL PUMPING; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS; VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENON 129; XENON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG EXAMINATION; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SMOKING; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; XENON ISOTOPES;

EID: 84937735823     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25732     Document Type: Article

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