Jim M. Wild1,
Helen Marshall1, Xiaojun Xu1, Graham Norquay1,
Steven Parnell1, Matthew Clemence2, Paul Griffiths1,
Juan Parra-Robles1
1Academic
Radiology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom; 2Philips
Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands, Netherlands
The purpose of this work was development of methods for the acquisition, in the same breath-hold, of lung images from two hyperpolarized gases (3He and 129Xe) with simultaneous registered anatomical 1H MR images of lung structure.