Gas diffusion in a pulmonary acinus model: experiments with hyperpolarized helium-3

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1101-1113

  Habib, Dayane ^a   Grebenkov, Denis ^a,b   Guillot, Geneviève ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DE LA MATIÈRE CONDENSÉE   (France)

Author keywords

Gas diffusion; Hyperpolarized helium 3; Kitaoka model; Lung MRI; Monte Carlo simulations

Indexed keywords

EPOXY RESIN; GLASS; HELIUM; HELIUM 3; NITROGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAS; GAS DIFFUSION; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; GASES; HELIUM; HUMANS; ISOTOPES; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 51649130637     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.02.010     Document Type: Article

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