Perfusion of the rat ovary: Application of pulsed arterial spin labeling MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 113-123

  Tempel, Catherine ^a   Neeman, Michal ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Blood velocity; Ovarian perfusion; Ovulation

Indexed keywords

RATS; VELOCITY;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; BLOOD VELOCITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONES; OVARIAN PERFUSION; OVULATION; SATURATION TRANSFER; VASCULAR REMODELING;

BLOOD;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY; OVULATION; RAT; SPIN LABELING;

EID: 0032928415     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199901)41:1<113::AID-MRM16>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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