Kiarash Emami1, Stephen Kadlecek1, John MacDuffie-Woodburn1, Jianliang Zhu2, Stephen Pickup1, Jiangsheng Yu1, Matthew Stetz1, Masaru Ishii3, Michael Stephen4, Rahim Rizi1
1Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 2Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 3Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; 4Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
This work assesses the reproducibility of measurements of lung ventilation and their dependency on the administered hyperpolarized 3He volume using a serial ventilation sequence.