MR lung imaging at 0.2 T with T1-weighted true FISP: native and oxygen-enhanced

C J Müller; R Löffler; M Deimling; M Peller; M Reiser

doi:10.1002/jmri.1167

MR lung imaging at 0.2 T with T1-weighted true FISP: native and oxygen-enhanced

J Magn Reson Imaging. 2001 Aug;14(2):164-8. doi: 10.1002/jmri.1167.

Authors

C J Müller¹, R Löffler, M Deimling, M Peller, M Reiser

Affiliation

¹ Department of Clinical Radiology, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich, Germany.

PMID: 11477675
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1167

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.

MeSH terms

Artifacts
Humans
Lung / anatomy & histology*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
Male
Oxygen*
Time Factors

Substances

Oxygen