Published on the 23rd March 2017 by ANSTO Staff
There has been progress on a joint project with Monash University to construct noble-gas polarisers for MRI imaging
In December 2016, we succeeded in the domestic production of noble-gas-polarising cells called “optical pumping cells”. This is a capability that has not previously been available in Australia.
The cells are being utilised in a joint project with Monash University in which a noble-gas polarising station has been constructed to hyperpolarise 3He and 129Xe at the Monash Biomedical Imaging Centre (MBI) for use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).