ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition • 10-15 May 2025 • Honolulu, Hawai'i
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2261. Morphological
performance of free breathing stack-of-spirals ultrashort echo
time MRI for malignant lung nodules
Q. Fu, J-w Wu, X. Sun, X-n Meng, A-d Xiao
Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Impact: Spiral-UTE provides a potential alternative to
CT for showing malignant lung nodules, and with
significantly superior visualization of morphological
features compared to routine enhanced-VIBE. Enhanced
spiral-UTE offered superior SNR and CNR for detecting subtle
details of malignant nodules than unenhanced spiral-UTE.
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2262. A
Method to Improve the Reliability of Pulmonary
Perfusion-weighted Maps Obtained Using 3D Ultrashort Echo-time
MRI
H. Kim, S. Lee, J. Park, Y. J. Oh, J. Kim, J. Choe, H. Y.
Lee, J-Y Park
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea, Republic of
Impact: Improves the reliability of the 3D non-contrast
enhanced perfusion-weighted map by effectively removing
unwanted signals due to registration errors combined with
low SNR and undersampling during image processing.
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Computer Number: 3
2263. T1
Mapping in the Lungs using a Variable Flip Angle Approach with
UTE-MRI
S. Khodaei, A. Kizhakke Puliyakote, C. Wharff, M. McIntosh,
R. Meyer, O. Aboderin, K. Staab, A. Hahn, S. Fain
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
Impact: The free-breathing VFA-UTE technique provides a
simple and time-efficient approach to generate
high-resolution 3D parametric mapping of lung parenchyma
during free breathing that is sensitive to changes in
physiological conditions.
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2264. 3D
Ultrashort Echo Time (UTE) and 2D Dynamic MRI for Evaluating
Ventilation and Chest Wall Motion in Pediatric Pectus
Malformation Patients
B. Mei, F. Tan, S. Kim, P. Larson
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
Impact: UTE
and dynamic MRI-based ventilation analysis and chest motion
tracking greatly boost the structural and functional
understanding of pectus deformities and pave the road to
novel discoveries about the etiology of pectus deformities
and better treatment decisions under clinical settings.
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2265. Magnetization
Transfer Imaging of the Lung at 0.55T
A. Braun, G. Bauman, O. Bieri
University of Basel, Allschwil, Switzerland
Impact: This work
shows that high-resolution in-vivo magnetization transfer
imaging of the lung is feasible and reproducible at 0.55T in
free-breathing and within clinically relevant scan times,
offering excellent prospects to detect lung tissue
abnormalities such as fibrosis.
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2266. Quantification
of Gas Trapping in Cystic Fibrosis using Expiratory Breath-Hold
Lung ¹H-MRI
A. Simmons, L. Smith, Z. Somerville, H. Faulke, B. Tahir, D.
Hughes, N. West, A. Biancardi, N. Stewart, J. Wild
POLARIS, Division of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Impact: We developed a workflow to quantify gas trapping
in CF using a standard, easily implementable 1H-MRI
sequence. Our proposed metric sensitively quantifies gas
trapping in individuals with normal spirometry, suggesting
its potential for early disease assessment.
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2267. Respiration
Monitoring with Remote Pneumatic Dose Administration for 129Xe
MRI
D. Clements, S. Leewiwatwong, A. Costelle, A. McHorse, S.
Lee, C. Blanton, J. Korzekwinski, A. Sents, J. Shaffer, S.
Harris, D. Mummy, B. Driehuys
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, United States
Impact: Monitoring subject respiration prior to
hyperpolarized 129Xe
administration reveals altered respiration patterns. This
work will inform new approaches for consistent subject
coaching and dose delivery to improve repeatability of lung
inflation during imaging.
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2268. Visualization
of Vasoactive Treatment by Hyperpolarized Xenon-129 MRSI and
Cardiogenic Oscillations
M. Andersen, M. Kristensen, E. Hansen, R. Schulte, M. Redda,
U. Kjærgaard, M. Væggemose, C. Laustsen
Aarhus University, Aarhus N, Denmark
Impact: Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRSI enables non-invasive
monitoring of pulmonary hypertension, facilitating early
diagnosis and precise hemodynamic assessment. This approach
supports optimized treatment, reduces hospitalizations, and
enhances quality of life and survival in chronically ill
patients.
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2269. Explainable
AI-based classification of asthma and COPD from 129Xe-MRI with
regional interpretability
J. Astley, H. Marshall, L. Smith, A. Biancardi, R. Hughes,
B. Tahir, J. Wild
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Impact: Novel use of xenon-129 (129Xe)-MRI
to classify patients with asthma and/or COPD. Explainable AI
techniques provide insights into regional patterns of
ventilation associated with classifications; large-scale
regional patterns that occur in 129Xe-MRI
show qualitative differences in asthma and/or COPD
phenotypes.
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2270. Comparison
of Inert Fluorinated Gas and Hyperpolarized 129Xe Lung MRI Image
Quality in Pediatric Participants
B. Zanette, F. Alam, F. Ratjen, G. Santyr
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Impact: PFP-MRI may offer comparable ventilation
information to Xe-MRI in children with reduced costs and
infrastructure complexity, despite lower SNR and
resolution.
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2271. Use
of Principal Component Analysis to Study Features Within
Functional 1H Lung MRI at 3 T
Z. Peggs, S. Francis, P. Gowland
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Impact: PCA
may provide a method to gain additional functional insight
from, and enhance the SNR of, 1H
ventilation and perfusion maps.
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2272. Half-Radial
Balanced Steady-State Free Precession for Functional Lung
Imaging with Matrix Pencil Decomposition at 3T
A. Leuthard, G. Bauman, O. Bieri
University of Basel, Allschwil, Switzerland
Impact: This work demonstrates that functional lung
matrix pencil decomposition MRI using half-radial bSSFP is
feasible at 3T. The adapted acquisition scheme helps to
supress off-resonance artifacts and can be used as an
alternative to the contemporary Cartesian k-space sampling
approach.
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2273. Conjugate
Gradient and DL Reconstructions for UTE-MRI: Reducing Scan Time
without Image Quality and Nodule Detection Capability
Degradations
M. Endo, Y. Ohno, K. Yamamoto, Y. Sano, M. Ikedo, M. Ozaki,
M. Yui, H. Nagata, T. Ueda, M. Nomura, T. Yoshikawa, D.
Takenaka, Y. Ozawa
Shizuoka Cancer Center, Sunto-gun, Japan
Impact: When compared with conventional grid
reconstruction, conjugate gradient reconstruction and deep
learning reconstruction are useful for reducing acquisition
time without degradations of image quality and nodule
detection on pulmonary MRI with ultra-short TE.
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2274. Comparison
of MRI and CT in Detecting Pulmonary Lesions: Consistency and
Prospects for Application
L. Hairong, J. Rongrong, Z. Lang, S. Linqiang, H. Guangxu,
Q. Kaili, G. Yanjun
The Affliated Hospital of Northwest University·Xi 'an No.3 Hospital, Xi'an, China
Impact: This study provides guidance on MRI scanning
strategies for pulmonary lesions, recommending the
respiratory-gated 3D ZTE sequence as the primary choice for
subsolid lesions.
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2275. Exploring
Brain Differences in Lung Cancer Patients with Varying Lymph
Node Statuses: A Preliminary Study Based on DTI-ALPS
X. Liu, N. Meng, J. Pan, Z. Wang, Y. Yang, J. Yuan, M. Wang
Zhengzhou University People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China
Impact: This study offers a novel perspective on how
lung cancer lymph node status impacts the central nervous
system, revealing the interaction between tumor behavior and
the brain, and suggesting that lymph node metastasis may
affect the brain microenvironment.
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2276. Impact
of Segmentation Masks on Deformable Image Registration in
Post-Processing of Functional Lung MRI
J. Heidenreich, S. Westphale, J-P Grunz, S. Veldhoen, H.
Koestler, T. Wech
University Madison Wisconsin, Madison, United States
Impact: The robustness of image registration is crucial
for calculating ventilation in functional lung MRI.
Selecting optimal weighting masks to support registration
can significantly enhance precision, impacting the accuracy
of functional ventilation post-processing.
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