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Three-Dimensional Phase Resolved Functional Lung Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Published on: June 21, 2024
Respiratory frequency-tunable dynamic imaging for lung function: New exam method using chest X-ray cine imaging
Takehiko Abe1,2, Norifumi Yoshida1,2, Tetsuo Shimada3
1Department of Radiology, Teikyo University, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Objectives:
A convenient way to conduct pulmonary function tests while preventing infectious diseases was proposed, together with countermeasures for severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The correlation between diagnosis result and diagnosis result was examined for patients with mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) of the most abounding as a subject of spirometry, and the possibility of using this method as an alternative to spirometry was examined.
Setting:
This study was conducted in Kanagawa, Japan.
Participants:
Ten normal volunteers and 15 volunteers with mild COPD participated in this study.
Outcome Measures:
All images were taken by EXAVISTA (Hitachi, Japan) between October 2019 and February 2020. Continuous fluoroscopic images were taken in 12.5 frames per second for 10-20 s per subject. Images that do not adopt the automatic image processing of the equipment and only carry out the signal correction of each pixel were used for the analysis.
Results:
The mean total dose for all volunteers was 0.2 mGy. There was no major discrepancy in the detection of lung field geometry, and no diagnostic problems were noted by the radiologist and physician.
Conclusions:
Existing X-ray cine imaging was used to extract frequency-tunable imaging. It is possible to identify abnormal regions on the images compared to spirometry, and it does not require maximum effort respiration; therefore, it is possible to perform a stable examination because the patient's physical condition and the ability of laboratory technicians on the day are less affected. This can also be used as a countermeasure in examining patients with infectious diseases.
Trial Registration:
UMIN UMIN000043868.
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