Big data, big knowledge: big data for personalized healthcare

M Viceconti, P Hunter, R Hose - IEEE journal of biomedical and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The idea that the purely phenomenological knowledge that we can extract by analyzing
large amounts of data can be useful in healthcare seems to contradict the desire of VPH …

Current state of the art MRI for the longitudinal assessment of cystic fibrosis

JC Woods, JM Wild, MO Wielpütz… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Pulmonary MRI can now provide high‐resolution images that are sensitive to early disease
and specific to inflammation in cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease. With specificity and function …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo methods and applications of xenon-129 magnetic resonance

H Marshall, NJ Stewart, HF Chan, M Rao… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hyperpolarised gas lung MRI using xenon-129 can provide detailed 3D images of the
ventilated lung airspaces, and can be applied to quantify lung microstructure and detailed …

Functional imaging of the lungs with gas agents

SJ Kruger, SK Nagle, MJ Couch, Y Ohno… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This review focuses on the state‐of‐the‐art of the three major classes of gas contrast agents
used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)—hyperpolarized (HP) gas, molecular oxygen …

Detection of early subclinical lung disease in children with cystic fibrosis by lung ventilation imaging with hyperpolarised gas MRI

H Marshall, A Horsley, CJ Taylor, L Smith, D Hughes… - Thorax, 2017 - thorax.bmj.com
Hyperpolarised 3He ventilation-MRI, anatomical lung MRI, lung clearance index (LCI), low-
dose CT and spirometry were performed on 19 children (6–16 years) with clinically stable …

Comparison of 3He and 129Xe MRI for evaluation of lung microstructure and ventilation at 1.5T

NJ Stewart, HF Chan, PJC Hughes… - Journal of magnetic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background To support translational lung MRI research with hyperpolarized 129Xe gas,
comprehensive evaluation of derived quantitative lung function measures against …

Feasibility of human lung ventilation imaging using highly polarized naturally abundant xenon and optimized three‐dimensional steady‐state free precession

NJ Stewart, G Norquay, PD Griffiths… - Magnetic resonance in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To demonstrate the potential for high quality MRI of pulmonary ventilation using
naturally abundant xenon (NAXe) gas. Methods MRI was performed at 1.5 Tesla (T) and 3 T …

Spatial fuzzy c‐means thresholding for semiautomated calculation of percentage lung ventilated volume from hyperpolarized gas and 1H MRI

PJC Hughes, FC Horn, GJ Collier… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop an image‐processing pipeline for semiautomated (SA) and
reproducible analysis of hyperpolarized gas lung ventilation and proton anatomical …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale investigation of deep learning approaches for ventilated lung segmentation using multi-nuclear hyperpolarized gas MRI

JR Astley, AM Biancardi, PJC Hughes, H Marshall… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Respiratory diseases are leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Pulmonary
imaging is an essential component of the diagnosis, treatment planning, monitoring, and …

Magnetic resonance imaging with hyperpolarized agents: methods and applications

EB Adamson, KD Ludwig, DG Mummy… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past decade, hyperpolarized (HP) contrast agents have been under active
development for MRI applications to address the twin challenges of functional and …