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  • Medical Imaging
  • Pulmonary Function Assessment

Background:

  • Assessing lung ventilation non-invasively is crucial for diagnosing respiratory diseases.
  • Current MRI techniques often require contrast agents or are limited in spatial and temporal resolution.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a 3D MRI technique for free-breathing, non-contrast lung ventilation assessment.
  • To compare the performance of the novel 3D technique against a standard 2D method.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a 3D-UTE (ultra-short echo time) sequence with a koosh ball trajectory on a 3 Tesla scanner.
  • Utilized oversampled k-space and direct current signal for breathing phase sorting.
  • Applied gradient delay correction, iterative SENSE reconstruction, and 3D image registration for motion artifact reduction.

Main Results:

  • The UTE-based self-gated non-contrast-enhanced functional lung (SENCEFUL) MRI achieved a 49% SNR increase.
  • Quantitative ventilation values in healthy subjects agreed with 2D-SENCEFUL and literature data.
  • UTE-SENCEFUL successfully visualized and quantified ventilation deficits in a lung tumor patient, outperforming 2D-SENCEFUL.

Conclusions:

  • 3D-UTE-SENCEFUL is a robust MRI method providing both morphological and functional lung information in 3D.
  • The 3D-UTE approach yields higher resolution ventilation maps with improved SNR and fewer artifacts compared to 2D methods.