Measurement of longitudinal (T1) relaxation in the human lung at 3.0 Tesla with tissue-based and regional gradient analyses

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 224-228

  Nichols, Michael B ^a,b   Paschal, Cynthia B ^a,b,c,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Institute of Imaging Science   (United States)

Author keywords

3.0T; Gravity; Lung; Magnetic resonance imaging; Radial; T1 relaxation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG SLICE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 37849048959     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21243     Document Type: Article

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