HYPERPOLARIZED XENON

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
HPX	Polarean, Inc.	P.O. Box 14805 Research Triangle Park NC 277094805	HYPERPOLARIZED XENON;A hyperpolarized gas production and delivery system for medical imaging, namely, a system for providing hyperpolarized 129 Xenon (Xe) gas including hyperpolarizers, polarimetry measurement stations, and dose delivery bags with doses of inhalable hyperpolarized 129 Xenon (Xe) gas, used to obtain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of a patient's lungs;
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Technical Examples

A system and method for using hyperpolarized noble gases together with an appropriately designed and optimized magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequence to rapidly acquire static or dynamic magnetic resonance images. The strong magnetic resonance signal from hyperpolarized gases, combined with the present magnetic resonance imaging technique, presents the opportunity for the imaging of gases with both high spatial and high temporal resolution. One potential application for such a method is the direct, dynamic visualization of gas flow, which would be extremely useful for characterizing a variety of fluid systems. In the medical field, one such system of substantial importance is the lung. The system and method provides for visualizing regional ventilatory patterns throughout the respiratory cycle with high temporal and high spatial resolution. The low sensitivity to susceptibility artifacts permits good image quality to be obtained in various orientations. Depending on the application, temporal resolution can be traded for anatomical coverage. Such application of dynamic imaging of the lung using hyperpolarized gases will provide unique information on the physiology and pathophysiology of the lung, and has the potential for many clinically-relevant applications.