Lung Imaging and Function

11:00         43.        MRI "Spirometry" for Regional Pulmonary Function Analysis - not available

Abram Voorhees¹, Jing An¹, Kenneth I. Berger¹, Roberta Goldring¹, Qun Chen¹

¹New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

11:12         44.        Thermally Polarized ³He Magnetic Resonance Elastography: Initial Feasibility

Brian C. Goss¹, Kiaran P. McGee¹, Roger C. Grimm¹, Phillip J. Rossman¹, Richard L. Ehman¹

¹Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

11:24         45.        Gadolinium Enhanced SPI to Assess Lung Ventilation

Anthony Price¹, Alan White², Albert Busza², Peter Morris¹

¹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; ²GSK, Welwyn, UK

11:36         46.        1.5 Tesla Can Do Too – Measuring Quantitative Regional Lung Ventilation by AVI (Alveolar Ventilation Imaging) – Phantom Data and Results of a Feasibility Study in 10 Patients - not available

Hans-Georg Topf¹, Maren Zapke¹, Rainer Kuth², Peter Kreisler², Michael Deimling², Bernhard Geiger³,

Christophe Chefd´otel³, Thomas Rupprecht⁴

¹University Children´s Hospital, Erlangen, Germany; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; ³Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, New Jersey, USA; ⁴Children´s Hospital, Bayreuth, Germany

11:48         47.        Measuring the Progression of Emphysema in a Canine Model with ³He Diffusion MRI - not available

Jason C. Woods¹, Dmitriy A. Yablonskiy¹, Cliff K. Choong¹, James C. Hogg³, Joel D. Cooper¹, Mark S. Conradi¹

¹Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; ²St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

12:00         48.        Hyperpolarized He-3 ADC in a Rabbit Model of Emphysema: Evaluation of Progression and Sensitivity in an 8-Week Study - not available

Jaime Mata¹, Tally Altes¹, Jing Cai¹, Wolfgang Recheis², Eric Hoffman², Michael Salerno³, James Brookeman¹, Gordon Cates¹, William Tobias¹, John Mugler III¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; ²University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; ³Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

12:12         49.        Quantitative Analysis of Regional Airways Obstruction Using Dynamic Hyperpolarized ³He MRI - Preliminary Results in Children with Cystic Fibrosis - not available

Panos Koumellis¹, Edwin JR van Beek¹, ², Neil Woodhouse¹, Stan Fichele¹, Andrew J. Swift¹, Catherine Hill¹,

Martyn NJ Paley¹, Chris Taylor¹, Jim M. Wild¹

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK; ²University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

12:24         50.        SSFP Imaging with Hyperpolarized ³He : Experiments and Simulations

Jim M. Wild¹, Larry Kasuboski², Kevin Teh¹, Neil Woodhouse¹, Stan Fichele¹, Martyn NJ Paley¹

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK; ²Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

12:36         51.        Anisotrophic Diffusion in Human Lungs Using ³He MR Spectroscopy - not available

Dattesh D. Shanbhag¹, Talissa A. Altes¹, Jaime F. Mata¹, G Wilson Miller¹, Jack Knight-Scott¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

12:48         52.        Imaging V/Q by Mapping the T₁ of Inert Fluorinated Gases

Natalie L. Adolphi¹, Dean O. Kuethe¹

¹New Mexico Resonance, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA