Hyperpolarized 3He gas production and MR imaging of the lung

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 277-293

  Leawoods, Jason C ^a,d,e   Yablonskiy, Dmitriy A ^a,b,f,g   Saam, Brian ^c,e,h,i   Gierada, David S ^b   Conradi, Mark S ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d RHODES COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f Ukrainian Academy of Sciences ^*

^g INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

ⁱ PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyperpolarized; MRI; NMR

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035628003     PISSN: 10437347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.1014     Document Type: Article

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