MR assessment of fetal lung development using lung volumes and signal intensities

European Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 984-989

  Keller, Thomas M ^a   Rake, Annett ^b   Michel, Sven C A ^a   Seifert, Burkhardt ^c   Wiser, Josef ^b   Marincek, Borut ^a   Kubik Huch, Rahel A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Kantonsspital Baden   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fetal lung; MRI; Pulmonary hypoplasia; Signal intensity; SSFSE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CYSTIC ADENOMATOID MALFORMATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS LUNG; FETUS SURGERY; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; LUNG SEQUESTRATION; LUNG VOLUME; MONITORING; MUSCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

FETAL ORGAN MATURITY; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 2942726315     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-004-2256-x     Document Type: Article

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