James R. MacFall1,
Ahmed Halaweish1, 2, William Michael Foster3,
Richard E. Moon4, Neil R. MacIntyre3, Brian Soher5,
H. Cecil Charles, 26
1Radiology,
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States; 2Duke
Image Analysis Laboratory, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United
States; 3Department of Medicine--Pulmonary, Duke University
Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States; 4Department of
Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States; 5Deparment
of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States; 6Department
of Radology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States
. 1H magnetic resonance imaging has had limited value in the lung due to short T2*in spite of research showing that functional information can be obtained with oxygen enhanced MRI [1]. Recently, advances in ultra-short TE (UTE) pulse sequences [2] have begun to provide the ability to image the lung parenchyma. In this work we evaluated whether UTE MRI could be used for oxygen-enhanced 3D imaging of human lungs during free breathing