Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Postural Influence on Ventilation Efficiency and Relationship With Oxygen-Enhanced MRI in Cystic Fibrosis.

Pediatric pulmonology·2026

Same author

Tongue volume in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA): an AI-assisted automatic MRI analysis.

Journal of neurology·2026

Same author

Oxygen-enhanced MRI and multiple breath washout with Short extension reveal cystic fibrosis lung disease progression despite triple modulator therapy.

Thorax·2026

Same author

Impaired NF-κB/Nrf2 Crosstalk in Rett Syndrome.

FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology·2026

Same author

Synthetic DNA vaccine platform elicits potent immunity where electroporated naked-mRNA is non-immunogenic.

Journal for immunotherapy of cancer·2026

Same author

Correction: Design and chemical composition of a reference phantom for <sup>13</sup>C metabolic MRSI.

Magma (New York, N.Y.)·2026

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Apr 13, 2026

Author Spotlight: Optimized Lung MRI Protocol with Computationally Efficient Reconstruction Methods

Author Spotlight: Optimized Lung MRI Protocol with Computationally Efficient Reconstruction Methods

Published on: September 6, 2024

Multistage three-dimensional UTE lung imaging by image-based self-gating.

Marta Tibiletti¹, Jan Paul², Andrea Bianchi³

¹Core Facility Small Animal Imaging, Medical Faculty, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

|May 6, 2015

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

Image-based self-gating combined with ultrashort echo time 3D acquisition enables effective free-breathing lung imaging. This technique improves image sharpness and diaphragm motion visualization compared to conventional methods.

Keywords:

3D UTE image-based self gating morphological lung imaging respiratory self-gating retrospective self-gating

More Related Videos

Three-Dimensional Phase Resolved Functional Lung Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Three-Dimensional Phase Resolved Functional Lung Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Published on: June 21, 2024

Author Spotlight: Standardization and Best Practices for Advancing Lung Imaging Using 129Xe MRI

Author Spotlight: Standardization and Best Practices for Advancing Lung Imaging Using ¹²⁹Xe MRI

Published on: November 21, 2023

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Apr 13, 2026

Author Spotlight: Optimized Lung MRI Protocol with Computationally Efficient Reconstruction Methods

Author Spotlight: Optimized Lung MRI Protocol with Computationally Efficient Reconstruction Methods

Published on: September 6, 2024

Three-Dimensional Phase Resolved Functional Lung Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Three-Dimensional Phase Resolved Functional Lung Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Published on: June 21, 2024

Author Spotlight: Standardization and Best Practices for Advancing Lung Imaging Using 129Xe MRI

Author Spotlight: Standardization and Best Practices for Advancing Lung Imaging Using ¹²⁹Xe MRI

Published on: November 21, 2023

Area of Science:

Medical Imaging
Radiology
Pulmonary Imaging

Background:

Free-breathing lung imaging is challenging due to respiratory motion.
Ultrashort echo time (UTE) 3D acquisition offers fast data acquisition.
Respiratory self-gating (SG) methods are crucial for motion artifact reduction.

Purpose of the Study:

To integrate image-based self-gating (img-SG) with UTE 3D acquisition for multistage lung imaging during free breathing.
To evaluate novel k-space ordering schemes for img-SG.
To compare img-SG with conventional DC-based SG methods.

Main Methods:

Investigated three k-space ordering schemes (modified spiral, quasirandom, multidimensional Golden Angle) for img-SG.
Acquired low-resolution sliding-window images for respiratory signal extraction.
Compared performance against conventional spiral and DC-based SG in volunteers.

Main Results:

Successfully extracted respiratory signals using lung-liver interface displacement.
Achieved adequate temporal resolution (588 ms) for gating.
Img-SG produced sharper images with better diaphragm excursion than DC-SG methods.

Conclusions:

Image-based respiratory self-gating in UTE 3D lung imaging enables successful retrospective gating.
This approach allows for the reconstruction of intermediate respiratory stages.
Img-SG offers improved image quality for free-breathing lung MRI.