Hyperpolarized 13C MRI of the pulmonary vasculature and parenchyma

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 459-463

  Ishii, Masaru ^a,b,d   Emami, Kiarash ^b   Kadlecek, Stephen ^b   Petersson, J Stefan ^c   Golman, Klaes ^c   Vahdat, Vahid ^b   Yu, Jiangsheng ^b   Cadman, Robert V ^b   MacDuffie Woodburn, John ^b   Stephen, Michael ^b   Lipson, David A ^b   Rizi, Rahim R ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c BIACORE AB   (Sweden)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Functional lung imaging; Hyperpolarized carbon 13 MRI; Parahydrogen induced polarization; Pulmonary perfusion

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

CLINICAL METHODS; HYPERPOLARIZED CARBON-13; INDUCED POLARIZATION; LUNG IMAGING; PERFUSION MEASUREMENTS; PULMONARY PERFUSION; PULMONARY VASCULATURE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

2 HYDROXYETHYL PROPIONATE; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBON; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG PERFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SWINE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANIMAL; SWINE;

EID: 33847725922     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21168     Document Type: Article

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