Hooman Hamedani1, Kiarash Emami1,
Stephen J. Kadlecek1, Yinan Xu1, Yi Xin1,
Puttisarn Mongkolwisetwara1, Amy Barulic1, Nicholas N. Kuzma1,
Peter Magnusson2, Lise Vejby Sgaard2, Sandra Diaz3,
Per keson2, Milton D. Rossman4, Masaru Ishii5,
G. Wilson Miller6, Rahim R. Rizi1
1Radiology, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States; 2Danish Research Centre
for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre,
Denmark; 3Department of Clinical Sciences, Malm University
Hospital, Malm, Sweden; 4Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care
Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States; 5OtolaryngologyHead
& Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States; 6Radiology,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
We have performed a reproducibility assessment for a newly improved high-resolution scheme for alveolar oxygen tension. Our results show that this PAO2 measurement by the HP 3He MRI is a reasonable approximation of the physiological PAO2 and is also reproducible.