Functional MRI of the Lungs Using Single Breath-Hold and Self-Navigated Ultrashort Echo Time Sequences.

Julius Frederik Heidenreich Simon Veldhoen Corona Metz Lenon Mendes Pereira Thomas Benkert Josef Pfeuffer Thorsten Alexander Bley Herbert KöstlerAndreas M Weng

Published in: Radiology. Cardiothoracic imaging (2020)

Breath-hold and self-navigated 3D UTE sequences yield proton density-weighted images of the lungs that are similar in quality, and both techniques are suitable for functional image analysis.Supplemental material is available for this article.© RSNA, 2020.

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