Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Polarized Gases

By Stephen Kadlecek

Although conventional MRI cannot track inhaled or dissolved gases in the body, physicians may soon be able to do so using specially prepared atoms

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November-December 2002

Volume 90, Number 6
Page 540

DOI: 10.1511/2002.39.540

As this article goes to press, my company, Amersham Health, is delivering two machines to New York University Medical Center for a study to compare healthy and diseased lungs. The machines are helium-3 (3He) polarizers, and the lungs belong to 200 or so members of the New York City fire department who worked for weeks in the cloud of dust and soot that followed the collapse of the World Trade Center.

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