Prone positioning improves distribution of pulmonary perfusion: Noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging study in healthy humans

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 522-528

  Suzuki, Hisashi ^a   Sato, Yukio ^b   Shindo, Masashi ^a   Yoshioka, Hiroshi ^c   Mizutani, Taro ^c   Onizuka, Masataka ^c   Sakakibara, Yuzuru ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flow sensitive alternating inversion recovery; Lung; Magnetic resonance imaging; Perfusion; Proneposition

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY POSTURE; BREATHING; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW SENSITIVE ALTERNATING INVERSION RECOVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG PERFUSION; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPINE POSITION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; HUMANS; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PRONE POSITION; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 39149129113     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0808-6     Document Type: Article

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