Feasibility of pulmonary ventilation visualization with aerosolized magnetic resonance contrast media

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 85-88

  Haage, Patrick ^a   Karaagac, Süleyman ^a   Spüntrup, Elmar ^a   Truong, Huu Tri ^a   Schmidt, Thorsten ^a   Günther, Rolf W ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gadolinium; Lung; Magnetic resonance imaging; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG VENTILATION; NEBULIZATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

EID: 12444309341     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-200502000-00005     Document Type: Article

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