Self-gated Non-Contrast-enhanced Functional Lung MRI (SENCEFUL) is a technique based on a FLASH sequence that can assess ventilation and perfusion in free-breathing without the use of contrast agents. However, SENCEFUL suffers from the fast T2-induced signal decay in the lung parenchyma and offers no real 3D coverage. Thus, this work presents the use of a 3D ultra-short echo time (UTE) sequence in SENCEFUL MRI for the generation of ventilation-weighted maps.
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