| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can observe an organ without radiation exposure, but it was unsuitable for the lung. Recently, one of the developments of the technique, ultra-short echo time, enables us to observe the lung.
We demonstrated to “see” the lung in the healthy volunteers safely, and the lung after oxygen inhalation could be acceptable as a ventilation imaging. Furthermore, we were able to differentiate emphysema, which located in the upper lobes, from the normal lung in patients with the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and emphysema. In the future, we will differentiate emphysema in the whole lungs to use in a clinical examination.
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