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Measuring Dynamic Changes in Lung Water Density and Volume Following Supine Body Positioning Using Free-Breathing UTE MRI
DownloadSpring 2024
An excess of extravascular lung water (EVLW) is known as pulmonary edema, and is associated with dyspnea and poor exercise capacity, heart complications, heart failure, and can be a predictor of poor health outcomes. Recent developments in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequencing and hardware...
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Fall 2015
Fats are a fundamental building block of the human body, but accumulation of unwanted fat in and around tissues is a common pathology related to many disease mechanisms. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) offers a host of methods to differentiate water and fat signals in images or spectra, for...
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Spring 2020
Pulmonary edema (PE) involves an excess of extravascular lung water (EVLW) due to an imbalance in fluid filtration which results in hypoxia and respiratory distress. Cardiogenic pulmonary edema is a primary clinical feature and therapeutic target in acute heart failure. Current methods in...