March 25, 1999 (vol. 109, iss. 103) • Page Image 3
… LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 25, 1999 - 3A ESEARCH ! MRI technology uses xenon to view heart, lung Doctors have long used magnetic res- onance imaging in many clinical appli- *tions. But now University scientists have put a new twist on the technology which currently polarizes water mol- ecules in a patient's body with a power- lful magnetic field - by substituting xenon gas for water. The implications of using xenon ins...…