Peter Komlosi1, Talissa A. Altes1, Karen E. Mooney2, G. Wilson Miller1, Jaime F. Mata1, Eduard E. de Lange1, William A. Tobias2, Gordon D. Cates Jr. 2, John Mugler III<
1Department of Radiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States; 2Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
The goal of the present study was to evaluate the field-strength dependence of He3 ADC values at 0.4T and 1.5T. We found that for each of three orthogonal diffusion-sensitization directions, ADC values for the healthy human lung based on 2 b-value measurements were typically a few percent smaller at 0.43T than at 1.5T, and that these differences were statistically significant.