Troubleshooting and Quality Assurance in Hyperpolarized Xenon Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Tools for High-Quality Image Acquisition

Ummul Afia Shammi; Gabriela Mar&#237;a Garc&#8055;a Delgado; Robert Thomen

doi:10.3791/65972

Obtaining High-Quality Hyperpolarized Xenon-129 Magnetic Resonance Images

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Ummul Afia Shammi, Gabriela María Garcίa Delgado, Robert Thomen³

¹Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health Center,University of Missouri, ²Chemical and Biomedical Engineering,University of Missouri, ³Radiology, School of Medicine,University of Missouri

Summary

Here, we present a protocol for obtaining high-quality hyperpolarized xenon-129 magnetic resonance images, covering hardware, software, data acquisition, sequence selection, data management, k-space utilization, and noise analysis.