Magnetic resonance imaging of lung tissue: Influence of body positioning, breathing and oxygen inhalation on signal decay using multi-echo gradient-echo sequences

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 433-438

  Boss, Andreas ^a   Schaefer, Susanne ^a   Martirosian, Petros ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Schick, Fritz ^a   Schaefer, Juergen F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Line shape; Lung tissue; Oxygen breathing; T2* relaxation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; BREATHING; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OXYGEN BREATHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPINE POSITION; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 44449139899     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181690191     Document Type: Article

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