Magnetic susceptibility matching at the
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Alexandre Vignaud; Xavier Maître; Geneviève Guillot; Emmanuel Durand; Ludovic de
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Transverse relaxation of hyperpolarized helium‐3 magnetization in respiratory airways highly depends on local magnetic field gradients induced by the magnetic susceptibility difference between gas and pulmonary tissue. Fast transverse relaxation is known to be an important feature that