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Area of Science:

  • Pulmonary Medicine
  • Medical Imaging
  • Respiratory Physiology

Background:

  • Spirometry cannot detect ventilation heterogeneity.
  • Inhaled 129-Xenon MRI offers 3D imaging of pulmonary ventilation.
  • Previous quantification focused mainly on ventilation defects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a robust method for quantifying ventilation distribution and heterogeneity using 129-Xenon MRI.
  • To analyze ventilation distribution in healthy younger, healthy older, younger asthmatic, and older asthmatic individuals.

Main Methods:

  • Quantitative 129-Xenon MRI was performed on 12 younger healthy, 10 older healthy, 9 younger asthmatic, and 10 older asthmatic participants.
  • A reference ventilation distribution was established using younger healthy subjects.
  • Ventilation was categorized into ventilation defect region (VDR), low ventilation region (LVR), and high ventilation region (HVR) using intensity bins.

Main Results:

  • Younger healthy subjects showed a Gaussian ventilation distribution (VDR=2.1%, LVR=15.6%, HVR=17.4%).
  • Older healthy subjects exhibited increased VDR (7.0%) and LVR (24.5%) with a right-skewed distribution (P<0.05).
  • Asthmatics showed increased VDR and LVR, with reduced HVR (13.5%) in older individuals (P<0.009). Albuterol response was observed in two asthmatics with normal spirometry.

Conclusions:

  • Quantitative 129-Xenon MRI provides objective quantification of pulmonary ventilation distribution.
  • This method detects ventilation impairment not apparent with spirometry.
  • 129-Xenon MRI reveals ventilation heterogeneity in various age groups and in asthma.