Although hyperpolarized gases have been used to investigate regional pulmonary structure and function since the late 1990, the technology was not widely disseminated, because it relied on the rare and expensive stable isotope 3He. Dr. Cleveland helped pioneer the use of more readily available 129Xe, paving the way for clinical hyperpolarized gas MRI. Dr. Cleveland also helped expand the limits of preclinical MRI by demonstrating the feasibility of high resolution HP 129Xe imaging in rats and mice and by demonstrating the the first, in vivo molecular imaging applications of HP gases.
PhD: Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
Cystic Fibrosis Center
Hyperpolarized gases; pulmonary imaging; translational studies; preclinical MRI
Pulmonary Medicine, Imaging, Fibrosis
Hyperpolarized 129Xe Lung MRI and Spectroscopy in Mechanically Ventilated Mice. Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2024.
A decay-modeled compressed sensing reconstruction approach for non-Cartesian hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2024; 92:1363-1375.
846 Plasma proteomics identifies changes in disease-associated pathways in subjects with CF bronchiectasis after elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor initiation. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. 2024; 23:s490.
Analytical corrections for B1-inhomogeneity and signal decay in multi-slice 2D spiral hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI using keyhole reconstruction. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2024; 92:967-981.
Quantifying abnormal alveolar microstructure in cystic fibrosis lung disease via hyperpolarized 129Xe diffusion MRI. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. 2024; 23:926-935.
Impact of undersampling on preclinical lung T2* mapping with 3D radial UTE MRI at 7 T. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 2024; 365:107741.
Short-term structural and functional changes after airway clearance therapy in cystic fibrosis. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. 2023; 22:926-932.
B1 and magnetization decay correction for hyperpolarized 129 Xe lung imaging using sequential 2D spiral acquisitions. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2023; 90:473-482.
Diffusion weighted hyperpolarized 129 Xe MRI of the lung with 2D and 3D (FLORET) spiral. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2023; 89:1342-1356.
Childhood to adulthood: Accounting for age dependence in healthy-reference distributions in 129 Xe gas-exchange MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2023; 89:1117-1133.