Effects of age on pulmonary perfusion heterogeneity measured by magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2064-2070

  Levin, David L ^a   Buxton, Richard B ^a   Spiess, James P ^b   Arai, Tatsuya ^b   Balouch, Jamal ^b   Hopkins, Susan R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; Fractal dimension; Pulmonary function; Relative dispersion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAS EXCHANGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG PERFUSION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPIROMETRY; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 34247847661     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00512.2006     Document Type: Article

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