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Magnetic resonance imaging-based spirometry for regional assessment of pulmonary function

✍ Scribed by Abram Voorhees; Jing An; Kenneth I. Berger; Roberta M. Goldring; Qun Chen

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
710 KB
Volume
54
Category
Article
ISSN
0740-3194

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Abstract

In this work MRI‐based spirometry is presented as a method for noninvasively assessing pulmonary mechanical function on a regional basis. A SPAMM tagging sequence was modified to allow continuous dynamic imaging of the lungs during respiration. A motion‐tracking algorithm was developed to track material regions from time‐resolved grid‐tagged images. Experiments were performed to image the lungs during quiet breathing and volumetric strain was calculated from the measured displacement maps. Regional volume calculations, derived from volumetric strain, were integrated over the entire lung and compared to segmented volume calculations with good agreement. Results from this work demonstrate that MRI spirometry has the potential to become a clinically useful tool for measuring regional ventilation and assessing pulmonary diseases that regionally affect the mechanical function of the lung. Magn Reson Med, 2005. Β© 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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