title: MR lung imaging at 0.2 T with T1-weighted true FISP: native and oxygen-enhanced.
abstract: An inversion recovery true fast imaging with steady precession (FISP) pulse sequence was developed to carry out fast imaging of the lungs at 0.2 T. Using this sequence, oxygen-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) lung imaging was performed on healthy volunteers. The lungs showed signal enhancement (11.7% +/- 3.8%) when breathing 100% oxygen. Using inversion recovery, true FISP at low field may prove promising for MR lung imaging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Radiology, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Löffler
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Deimling
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Peller
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reiser
mesh_terms: D016477:Artifacts; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D010100:Oxygen; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen