MRI of tarantulas: morphological and perfusion imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 129-135

  Pohlmann, Andreas ^a   Möller, Marco ^b   Decker, Heinz ^b   Schreiber, Wolfgang Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

DCE MRI; MRI; Perfusion; Spider; Tarantula

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; EURYPELMA CALIFORNICUM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPIDER; TARANTULA;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDA; CONTRAST MEDIA; GADOLINIUM DTPA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; EURYPELMA CALIFORNICUM; TARANTULA; THERAPHOSIDAE;

EID: 33846009498     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.08.019     Document Type: Article

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