Hyperpolarized Noble Gas Imaging

Hall 7     10:30 - 12:30         Chairs: Yannick Crémillieux and Glyn Johnson

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10:30 454.

Young Investigator Award Finalist: Human Regional Pulmonary Gas Exchange with Xenon

Polarization Transfer (XTC)

Iga Muradian1, 2, James Butler3, Mirko Hrovat4, George Topulos5, Elizabeth Hersman2, Eric Frederick2, 6, Silviu Covrig1, Iulian Ruset1, Stephen Ketel1, William Hersman1, Samuel Patz2

1University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA; 2Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 3Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 4Mirtech, Inc., Brockton, Massachusetts, USA; 5Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 6University of Massachusetts – Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
 

10:50 455.

MR Imaging of Pulmonary Perfusion and Gas Exchange by Intravenous Injection of

Hyperpolarized 129Xe

Bastiaan Driehuys1, Harald Moeller2, 3, Jim Pollaro1, Laurence W. Hedlund1

1Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA; 2Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany; 3University Hospital Munster, Munster, Germany
 

11:02 456.

Detecting Radiation-Induced Lung Injuries Using XTC MRI: Initial Findings

Kai Ruppert1, 2, Jaime F. Mata2, Jing Cai2, Paul Read2, Ke Sheng2, Talissa A. Altes, 23, Hsuan-Tsung J. Wang2, William A. Tobias2, Gordon D. Cates2, James R. Brookeman2, Klaus D. Hagspiel2, John P. Mugler III2

1The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; 2University of Virginia, Virginia, USA; 3The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
 

11:14 457.

In Vivo Diffusion Measurements of Hyperpolarized Helium-3 in Rat Lungs at Low Field: Time

Dependence with a Fast Sequence

Dayane Habib1, Sandra Perez-Rial2, José M. Pérez-Sanchez2, Ignacio Rodríguez2, Jesus Ruiz-Cabello2, Geneviève Guillot1

1Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France; 2Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
 

11:26 458.

Measuring Medium- And Long-Time-Scale Regional 3He Diffusion Using Stimulated Echoes

Chengbo Wang1, Grady W. Miller1, Tallisa A. Altes1, 2, Eduard E. de Lange1, James R. Brookeman1, Gordon D. Cates, Jr1, John P. Mugler, III1

1University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; 2Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
 

11:38 459.

Iterative Highly Constrained Back Projection (HYPR) Reconstruction of Undersampled Diffusion

Weighted Data in Hyperpolarized Helium-3 MRI

Rafael Luis O'Halloran1, James Holmes1, Eric Peterson2, Sean Fain1

1University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; 2University of Wisconsin, Maidson, Wisconsin, USA
 

11:50 460.

Time-Of-Flight Imaging of Hyperpolarized Gas Flows in the Human Airways at True Temporal Resolution

Lower Than 10 Ms

Xavier Maître1, Sébastien Besse1, Franck Mauconduit1, Viliam Senaj1, Emmanuel Durand1, Luc Darrasse1, Jacques Bittoun1

1CNRS (UMR8081) - Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
 

12:02 461.

Imaging 3D Respiratory Dynamics Using Hyperpolarized He-3 Multi-Echo HYPR VIPR

James Holmes1, Rafael O'Halloran1, Ethan Brodsky1, Julia Velikina1, Eric Peterson1, Walter Block1, Sean Fain1

1University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
 

12:14 462.

Easy Access to Polarized 3He by Centralized Large Scale Production

Jörg Schmiedeskamp1, Daniel Rudersdorf2, Stefan Hiebel2, Marion Batz2, Anselm Deninger2, Michael Ebert2, Manuela Güldner2, Reinhard Surkau2, Michael Wolf2, Werner Heil2, Ernst Wilhelm Otten2

1Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany; 2University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany