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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-5-20
pubmed:abstractText
Inflated lung has a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) free-induction decay (FID) which is short compared with that of collapsed lung and those of other body tissues. An almost identically short FID is obtained from a slurry of 5-micron alumina particles in water. Interfaces between air and water in lung and between alumina and water in the slurry appear to be the source of spatial internal magnetic inhomogeneities which produce NMR line broadening and the short FID. Paired images that included lung, taken with paired symmetric and asymmetric NMR spin-echo sequences, permit the generation of an image, by subtraction, of the lung isolated from surrounding tissue. These new lung images are neither proton density, T1 (spin-lattice relaxation time), nor T2 (spin-spin relaxation time) images. They complement current NMR images and provide information about regional lung inflation. This previously unrecognized NMR property of lung tissue has potential application in NMR imaging, in quantitative determination of lung water and its distribution, and in the quantitation of regional lung inflation.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
8750-7587
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
58
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
759-62
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
A new nuclear magnetic resonance property of lung.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.