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Abstract #1674

Safety Concept, Experimental Design and Quality Assurance for Parahydrogen in a Clinical Setting

Jan-Bernd Hvener1, Robert Borowiak1, Sebastien Br1, Jochen Leupold1, Jrgen Hennig1, Dominik von Elverfeldt1

1Medical Physics, Dep. of Radiology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, BW, Germany

While the methodology of pH2 production is known for decades (flow through catalyst at 20 K), its implementation in a clinical setting is rare (none is known to us), but key if pH2 hyperpolarization is to enter life sciences. Here, we present the safety concept, experimental setup and quality assurance to run a pH2 production unit in hospital.

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