Parahydrogen-Hyperpolarized Propane-d6 Gas Contrast Agent: T1 Relaxation Dynamics and Pilot Millimeter-Scale Ventilation MRI Full article
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The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
ISSN: 1089-5639 , E-ISSN: 1520-5215 |
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Output data | Year: 2025, Volume: 129, Number: 19, Pages: 4275–4287 Pages count : 13 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c08800 | ||||||||||||
Tags | Angiography; Lung cancer; Pulmonary diseases; Spin polarization | ||||||||||||
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Funding (13)
1 | United States Department of Defense | W81XWH-20-1-0576 |
2 | United States Department of Defense | W81XWH-20-10578 |
3 | National Science Foundation | CHE–2404387 |
4 | National Science Foundation | CHE-2404388 |
5 | National Heart Lung and Blood Institute | R21HL168430-01A1 |
6 | National Heart Lung and Blood Institute | 1F32HL160108 |
7 | National Institutes of Health | R01NS114972 |
8 | National Institutes of Health | R01NS117146 |
9 | National Institutes of Health | R01NS130258 |
10 | Wayne State University | |
11 | Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation | FWZS-2022-0002 (122040800222-3) |
12 | Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation | FWUR-2024-0032 |
13 | Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation | 0267-2021-0004 (АААА-А21-121012290043-3) |
Abstract:
Hyperpolarized (HP) MRI provides enhanced signals over conventional MRI due to the increase in nuclear spin polarization by orders of magnitude compared to thermal polarization. Therefore, HP MRI can be successfully utilized toward imaging of low-density gases in void spaces, such as human lungs. Specifically, in clinical pulmonary imaging, HP MRI employs a gaseous contrast agent that fills the lungs during inhalation under physiologically relevant conditions prior to imaging. FDA-approved HP 129Xe gas can now be used as the first HP inhalable gaseous contrast agent for functional lung imaging in adults and pediatric patients above 12 years for diagnosis and monitoring responses to the treatment of many pulmonary diseases. However, despite the substantial success of HP 129Xe in research settings, the production and MRI of this novel contrast agent remain expensive and not universally available on clinical MRI scanners. An alternative approach is to deploy a proton-hyperpolarized gas that is cheap and fast to produce and can be detected on any clinical MRI scanner without any modification. Hyperpolarized propane gas has recently emerged as a potential next-generation hyperpolarized inhalable contrast agent. Here, the relaxation dynamics of two deuterated hyperpolarized propane isotopologues have been explored at clinically relevant conditions of 1 atm gas pressure and 0.35 and 1.4 T magnetic fields using pairwise addition of parahydrogen to a corresponding unsaturated precursor over the heterogeneous Rh/TiO2 catalyst. The T1 relaxation time of HP propane-d6 gas (0.91±0.03 s) at 1.4 T was found to be similar to that of HP propane gas (0.81±0.06 s) because the dominating relaxation mechanism is due to the coupling of the nuclear spins to the molecular rotation of these two propane gas isotopologues. Moreover, the effective polarization decay constant increases for HP propane-d6 to 1.35±0.05 s (and for HP propane to 1.35±0.10 s) at 0.35 T, pointing to the likely “partial” presence of the long-lived spin states (LLSS) at this clinically relevant field, corresponding to the intermediate spin–spin coupling regime of the two parahydrogen-derived hyperpolarized sites. Furthermore, the pilot feasibility of rapid lung ventilation imaging with 1 × 1 × 9 mm2 voxel-size spatial resolution using a clinical 0.35 T open MRI scanner was demonstrated by inflating HP propane-d6 gas in excised rabbit lungs, despite the reduction of the HP gas relaxation constant to 0.78 ± 0.02 s in the lungs.
Cite:
Ariyasingha N.M.
, Oladun C.
, Samoilenko A.
, Chowdhury M.R.H.
, Nantogma S.
, Shi Z.
, Luo K.
, Tan S.
, Salnikov O.G.
, Xhupi A.
, Suleiman M.
, Chekmenev Y.A.
, Kovtunova L.M.
, Koptyug I.V.
, Gelovani J.G.
, Goodson B.M.
, Chekmenev E.Y.
Parahydrogen-Hyperpolarized Propane-d6 Gas Contrast Agent: T1 Relaxation Dynamics and Pilot Millimeter-Scale Ventilation MRI
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2025. V.129. N19. P.4275–4287. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c08800 WOS Scopus PMID OpenAlex
Parahydrogen-Hyperpolarized Propane-d6 Gas Contrast Agent: T1 Relaxation Dynamics and Pilot Millimeter-Scale Ventilation MRI
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2025. V.129. N19. P.4275–4287. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c08800 WOS Scopus PMID OpenAlex
Dates:
Submitted: | Dec 30, 2024 |
Accepted: | Apr 16, 2025 |
Published online: | May 1, 2025 |
Published print: | May 15, 2025 |
Identifiers:
Web of science: | WOS:001480018500001 |
Scopus: | 2-s2.0-105004009388 |
PMID: | 40311080 |
OpenAlex: | W4409989008 |
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