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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2002
James Baumgardner, Milmont Park, PA (US);
David Lipson, Wynnewood, PA (US);
Rahim Rizi, Montgomeryville, PA (US);
David Roberts, Rosemont, PA (US);
Mitchell Schnall, Broomall, PA (US);
James Baumgardner, Milmont Park, PA (US);
David Lipson, Wynnewood, PA (US);
Rahim Rizi, Montgomeryville, PA (US);
David Roberts, Rosemont, PA (US);
Mitchell Schnall, Broomall, PA (US);
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
The present invention offers novel equilibration methods for very high resolution, three-dimensional imaging of imaging of lung compliance and distribution of functional residual capacity (FRC) in the lung using hyperpolarized helium-3 (He) gas (HHe), and collecting local magnetic resonance image data therefrom. Using the present methods permits many functions that have been performed on a regional level for the whole lung using non-polarized helium, to be calculated for the first time from the local MRI measurements of local HHe, such as measuring volume or compliance.