Peder E. Z. Larson1, James Tropp2,
Albert P. Chen3, Paul Calderon2, Simon Hu1,
Galen Reed1, Sarah J. Nelson1, John Kurhanewicz1,
Ralph Hurd2, Daniel B. Vigneron1
1Radiology and Biomedical Imaging,
University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States; 2Applied
Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States; 3Applied
Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
We
have developed and tested custom hardware and methods for future prostate
cancer patient studies with hyperpolarized 13C-pyruvate, including
13C coils for prostate imaging, clean room dissolution DNP system,
and hyperpolarized 13C pulse sequences.
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