Hyperpolarized Metabolic Imaging Visualizes ‘Real-Time’ Disease Progress

Most major diseases are somehow linked to metabolic alterations. But being able to see the changes as they occur and to see if a treatment is working in ‘real time’ is now nearer at hand thanks to Hyperpolarized Metabolic Imaging. This technology has created new possibilities to non-invasively study biochemical changes in disease processes by improving the sensitivity of Magnetic Resonance by more than 20,000-fold as reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.