Theoretical study assesses intravenous hyperpolarized xenon delivery in tissue perfusion, indicating comparable effectiveness to respiration methods.
There is an increasing interest in the use of hyperpolarized 129-xenon (HpXe) NMR for the measurement of tissue perfusion. In this paper we present a theoretical study designed to assess the merit of intravenous HpXe delivery compared with the existing respiration techniques. A compartmental model was created to describe the behavior of the injected bolus in the circulatory system and in the lungs. The dependence of the tissue concentration on the T(1) and solubility of the Xe in the various compartments, and on injection rate, were evaluated. By this process the critical loss mechanisms are identified. It is shown that the predicted tissue concentrations of HpXe in gray and white matter are comparable using respiration or injection techniques
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