Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), once thought of as an orphan lung disease, is now a frontrunner in respiratory research. However, progress is hampered by a lack of sensitive biomarkers. Hyperpolarized xenon MR spectroscopy has demonstrated sensitivity to gas exchange in IPF and is emerging as a feasible imaging biomarker of disease. Here, we demonstrate that this methodology has high reproducibility in the disease state, correlates with clinical outcomes and demonstrates a decline in gas transfer efficiency in the lung over six months in spite of static pulmonary function test metrics.
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