My research is centered on the development and application of MRI methods for imaging lung structure and function. We want to understand how we can best image the lungs and then use those techniques to understand lung health and disease. Lung MRI is a rapidly evolving field.
Researchers are working on new ways to collect MRI of different gas agents and new methods of using conventional MRI to image lung structure and function. Structural MRI has come a long way with various new ways to mitigate motion and improve the SNR of images. Many of the reconstruction methods available for generating high quality lung structure MRI images are either complicated, computationally expensive, or both.
This protocol uses relatively computationally efficient reconstruction methods and implements a simple pipeline for post-acquisition respiratory gating.
