Fluorinated gas imaging is a complementary method to hyperpolarized gas ventilation imaging, but suffers from lower SNR by virtue of low spin density and thermal polarisation. We present a 3D printed lung phantom based on a gold standard lung ventilation scan acquired from 3He MRI used to explore the limits of fluorinated gas MR in terms of spatial resolution and SNR. Images acquired with unrealistically long imaging times for in-vivo exams were compared to lower resolution images. The results demonstrate that resolutions obtainable with in-vivo fluorinated gas imaging miss potentially important spatial variation information.
This abstract and the presentation materials are available to members only; a login is required.