Journal article
Inert fluorinated gas MRI: a new pulmonary imaging modality
Abstract
Fluorine-19 ((19)F) MRI of the lungs using inhaled inert fluorinated gases can potentially provide high quality images of the lungs that are similar in quality to those from hyperpolarized (HP) noble gas MRI. Inert fluorinated gases have the advantages of being nontoxic, abundant, and inexpensive compared with HP gases. Due to the high gyromagnetic ratio of (19)F, there is sufficient thermally polarized signal for imaging, and averaging within …
Authors
Couch MJ; Ball IK; Li T; Fox MS; Ouriadov AV; Biman B; Albert MS
Journal
NMR in Biomedicine, Vol. 27, No. 12, pp. 1525–1534
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
December 2014
DOI
10.1002/nbm.3165
ISSN
0952-3480