Improved visualization of the human lung in 1H MRI using multiple inversion recovery for simultaneous suppression of signal contributions from fat and muscle

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 866-870

  Mai, Vu M ^a   Knight Scott, Jack ^a   Berr, Stuart S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Inversion recovery; Longitudinal relaxation time (T1); Lung imaging; Lung parenchyma; Pulmonary vessels

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE; RECOVERY; RELAXATION TIME; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION;

INVERSION RECOVERY; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION TIME; LUNG IMAGING; LUNG PARENCHYMA; PULMONARY VESSELS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0032948001     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199905)41:5<866::AID-MRM2>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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