The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)has been a great burden for the healthcare system in many countries because of its high transmissibility,severity,and fatality.Chest radiography and computed t...The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)has been a great burden for the healthcare system in many countries because of its high transmissibility,severity,and fatality.Chest radiography and computed tomography(CT)play a vital role in the diagnosis,detection of complications,and prognostication of COVID-19.Additionally,magnetic resonance imaging(MRI),especially multi-nuclei MRI,is another important imaging technique for disease diagnosis because of its good soft tissue contrast and the ability to conduct structural and functional imaging,which has also been used to evaluate COVID-19-related organ injuries in previous studies.Herein,we briefly reviewed the recent research on multi-nuclei MRI for evaluating injuries caused by COVID-19 and the clinical 1 H MRI techniques and their applications for assessing injuries in lungs,brain,and heart.Moreover,the emerging hyperpolarized 129Xe gas MRI and its applications in the evaluation of pulmonary structures and functional abnormalities caused by COVID-19 were also reviewed.展开更多
基金This work is supported by National key Research and Development Project of China(grant no.2018YFA0704000)National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant no.91859206,81625011,21921004)+3 种基金Scientific Instrument Developing Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(grant no.GJJSTD20200002,YJKYYQ20200067)Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences,CAS(grant no.ZDBS-LY-JSC004)Haidong Li acknowledges the support from Youth Innovation Promotion Association,CAS(grant no.2020330)Xin Zhou acknowledges the support from the Tencent Foundation through the XPLORER PRIZE.
文摘The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)has been a great burden for the healthcare system in many countries because of its high transmissibility,severity,and fatality.Chest radiography and computed tomography(CT)play a vital role in the diagnosis,detection of complications,and prognostication of COVID-19.Additionally,magnetic resonance imaging(MRI),especially multi-nuclei MRI,is another important imaging technique for disease diagnosis because of its good soft tissue contrast and the ability to conduct structural and functional imaging,which has also been used to evaluate COVID-19-related organ injuries in previous studies.Herein,we briefly reviewed the recent research on multi-nuclei MRI for evaluating injuries caused by COVID-19 and the clinical 1 H MRI techniques and their applications for assessing injuries in lungs,brain,and heart.Moreover,the emerging hyperpolarized 129Xe gas MRI and its applications in the evaluation of pulmonary structures and functional abnormalities caused by COVID-19 were also reviewed.
