A robust optical respiratory trigger for small rodents in clinical whole-body MR systems

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 138-144

  Herrmann, Karl Heinz ^a   Wagner, Enrico ^a   Deistung, Andreas ^a   Hilger, Ingrid ^a   Reichenbach, Jürgen R ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal MRI; Optical trigger; Physiological monitoring; Respiratory gating

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; MAMMALS; RESONANCE; SCANNING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS; APPLIED (CO); MAGNETIC (CE); MOTION ARTEFACTS; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); OPTICAL MOTION; OPTICAL SIGNALLING; TRANSISTOR-TRANSISTOR LOGIC (TTL); WHOLE BODY (WB);

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATHING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; WHOLE BODY MRI;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 44949163140     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2008.020     Document Type: Article

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