Sensitivity and resolution in 3D NMR microscopy of the lung with hyperpolarized noble gases

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 800-808

  Möller, Harald E ^a   Chen, X Josette ^a   Chawla, Mark S ^a   Cofer, Gary P ^a   Driehuys, Bastiaan ^b   Hedlund, Laurence W ^a   Suddarth, Steve A ^a   Johnson, G Allan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Magnetic Imaging Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyperpolarized gas; Lung; MR microscopy; Projection encoding

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE CODING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMALS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AIRWAY STRUCTURES; GYROMAGNETIC RATIO; HIGH IMAGE QUALITY; HYPERPOLARIZED; ISOTOPE ABUNDANCE; LUNG; MR MICROSCOPY; RAPID RELAXATION;

INERT GASES;

XENON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLE; GUINEA PIG; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0344731408     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199904)41:4<800::AID-MRM20>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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