Atiyah Yahya1,2, Keith Wachowicz1,2,
B. Gino Fallone1,2
1Department of Medical Physics, Cross
Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; 2Department of
Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
MRI
of the lungs is challenging because of the low proton density and because of
the large number of air-tissue interfaces which create susceptibility
gradients. Lung MRI has shown to be
feasible at 3 T using the HASTE sequence with parallel imaging. In this work we examine the feasibility of
applying Linear Combination SSFP (LCSSFP) for lung MRI at 3 T. Experiments were conducted on a normal
volunteer and lung images were acquired with both HASTE and LCSSFP. The images acquired with LCSSFP were
clearer and did not suffer from blurring compared to the HASTE images.