Dialysate pressure isobars in a hollow-fiber dialyzer determined from magnetic resonance imaging and numerical simulation of dialysate flow

Artificial Organs

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 907-909

  Osuga, Toshiaki ^a   Obata, Takayuki ^b   Ikehira, Hiroo ^b   Tanada, Shuji ^b   Sasaki, Yasuhito ^b   Naito, Hidemune ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Konan Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capillary; Contrast enhance; Filtration; Heavy water; Membrane; Spin echo

Indexed keywords

HEAVY WATER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROFILTRATION; SPINNING (FIBERS); WATER FILTRATION;

CONTRAST-ENHANCE; DIALYSATES; FIBER DENSITY; HOLLOW FIBER; HOLLOW FIBER DIALYZER; RADIAL GRADIENT; SPIN ECHO;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEMODIALYSIS; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031686625     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.1998.06018.x     Document Type: Article

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