Organ weight: A new tissue parameter to assess water proton spin-lattice relaxation time

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-75

  Akber, S F ^a  

^a MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN WEIGHT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELAXATION TIME; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031035296     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(97)90026-8     Document Type: Article

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