Yu Deng1, Qiuxi Lin2, Xinchun Li2, Weiyin Vivian Liu3, Lei Zhang4, Qi Wan2, and Chongpeng Sun2
1Radiology, The first affiliated hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, 2The first affiliated hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, 3MR Research, GE Healthcare, Beijing, China, 4GE Healthcare, Beijing, China
1Radiology, The first affiliated hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, 2The first affiliated hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, 3MR Research, GE Healthcare, Beijing, China, 4GE Healthcare, Beijing, China
The overall image
quality of the lung was good to excellent. The bronchi and pulmonary arteries
can be visualized up to the the 5th generation and the 7th
generation respectively. The whole lung ZTE with free-breathing is feasible and
can serve as an alternative method in chest imaging.
Figure
3 A-B. The azygos fissure on ZTE images. Both (A)
axial and (B) coronal reconstructed image demonstrated the azygos fissure and
vein (arrow).
Figure
2 A-B. Visibility of lung structures. (A) The posterior
segmental bronchus (4th generation) of the right lower lobe (arrow)
was well depicted by ZTE. (B) The 7th generation of the pulmonary
artery in the right lower lobe (arrow) was well displayed using maximum
intensity projection (MIP) by ZTE.
