Lung imaging ventilation

Tc" 6h To image skeleton and heart muscle, brain, thyroid, lungs (perfusion and ventilation), liver, spleen, kidney (structure and filtration rate),... 

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MRI measurement of hyperpolarized gas diffusion is another important source of information about lung morphology and disease. The diffusion of gas is restricted by the microstructure of the lung—its small airways and alveolar walls—making diffusion sensitive to microstructural features on an alveolar distance scale, well below the spatial—resolution limits of conventional MRI. These properties can be quantified as a gas apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), complementing information about the uniformity of gas transport derived from ventilation images. 

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Dupuich D, Berthezene Y, Clouet PL, Stupar V, Canet E, CremiUieux Y. Dynamic 3He imaging for quantification of regional lung ventilation parameters. Magn Reson... 

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