Combined MR proton lung perfusion/angiography and helium ventilation: Potential for detecting pulmonary emboli and ventilation defects

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 433-438

  Zheng, Jie ^a   Leawoods, Jason C ^b   Nolte, Mark ^c   Yablonskiy, Dmitriy A ^a   Woodard, Pamela K ^a   Laub, Gerhardt ^b   Gropler, Robert J ^c   Conradi, Mark S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; Hyperpolarized gas; MR angiography; MR perfusion; Pulmonary emboli

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD; DEFECTS; HELIUM;

CONTRAST AGENT; HYPERPOLARIZED; MR ANGIOGRAPHY; MR PERFUSION; PULMONARY EMBOLUS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GADODIAMIDE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; HELIUM 3; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AGENT; RADIOISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION DISTRIBUTION; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE PROTON LUNG PERFUSION ANGIOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PULMONARY ARTERY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036187987     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10091     Document Type: Article

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