Pulmonary kinematics from tagged hyperpolarized helium‐3 MRI

To propose and test the feasibility of a novel method for quantifying 3D regional pulmonary kinematics from hyperpolarized helium‐3 tagged MRI in human subjects using a tailored image processing pipeline and a recently developed nonrigid registration framework.

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