The difference in ventilation heterogeneity between asthmatic and healthy subjects quantified using hyperpolarized 3He MRI

YS Tzeng, K Lutchen, M Albert - Journal of applied …, 2009 - journals.physiology.org
ventilation and its heterogeneity using HP 3 He MRI in a manner applicable to human
subjects. … were applied to HP 3 He ventilation MR images acquired from healthy and asthmatic …

Assessment of the influence of lung inflation state on the quantitative parameters derived from hyperpolarized gas lung ventilation MRI in healthy volunteers

PJC Hughes, L Smith, HF Chan… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
… Six volunteers (all men) were recruited for this study with the only criterion being that subjects
were suitable for MRI and had no known respiratory complications. Two volunteers were …

Repeatability of phase‐resolved functional lung (PREFUL)‐MRI ventilation and perfusion parameters in healthy subjects and COPD Patients

GH Pöhler, F Klimeš, L Behrendt… - … Resonance Imaging, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… and the healthy subjects were unsuccessful MRI examination, contraindications to MRI (ie, …
In this study, no bias over time was found in healthy subjects or COPD patients for Q Quant . …

Functional MRI using Fourier decomposition of lung signal: reproducibility of ventilation-and perfusion-weighted imaging in healthy volunteers

M Lederlin, G Bauman, M Eichinger, J Dinkel… - European journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
… unlike lung parenchyma in healthy volunteers, perfusion and ventilation defects are subject
to certain … Actually, the main limitation related to healthy subjects is the fact that we may have …

Using hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI to quantify the pulmonary ventilation distribution

M He, B Driehuys, LG Que, YCT Huang - Academic radiology, 2016 - Elsevier
ventilation defects. Here, we introduce a robust means to transform 129 Xe MRI scans such
that the underlying ventilation … The ventilation distribution in the older healthy subjects shifted …

Quantification of regional fractional ventilation in human subjects by measurement of hyperpolarized 3He washout with 2D and 3D MRI

FC Horn, MH Deppe, H Marshall… - Journal of applied …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
… regional parametric images of fractional ventilation (r) as the … was investigated in four healthy
subjects in the supine position… in all healthy subjects and repeated twice for each subject to …

Comparison of phase-resolved functional lung (PREFUL) MRI derived perfusion and ventilation parameters at 1.5 T and 3T in healthy volunteers

J Glandorf, F Klimeš, A Voskrebenzev, M Gutberlet… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… Data sets of free breathing 2d FLASH lung MRI were acquired from 15 healthy subjects at
1.5T and 3T (Magnetom Avanto and Skyra, Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany) with a …

Vertical distribution of specific ventilation in normal supine humans measured by oxygen-enhanced proton MRI

RC Sá, MV Cronin… - Journal of applied …, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
healthy supine subjects, we implemented a novel proton magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …
We studied eight healthy subjects (3 female, 5 male subjects) in the supine posture. Table 1 …

Validating the distribution of specific ventilation in healthy humans measured using proton MR imaging

RC Sá, AK Asadi, RJ Theilmann… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
… Specific ventilation imaging (SVI) uses proton MRI to quantitatively map the distribution of …
In the present work, we chose to study healthy subjects, because the assumption that a single …

Estimating ventilation correlation coefficients in the lungs using PREFUL‐MRI in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients and healthy adults

T Moher Alsady, J Ruschepaul… - Magnetic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
healthy subjects and 32 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients were scanned
twice using PREFUL-MRI. … Vent-CC and ventilation defect percentage (VDP) calculated …