Lung imaging under free-breathing conditions

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 723-727

  Oechsner, Markus ^a   Pracht, Eberhard D ^a   Staeb, Daniel ^a   Arnold, Johannes F T ^a,b   Köstler, Herbert ^a   Hahn, Dietbert ^a   Beer, Meinrad ^a   Jakob, Peter M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Research Center for Magnetic Resonance Bavaria (MRB)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free breathing; Lung imaging; Navigator echo; Respiration triggering

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FREE BREATHING; LUNG IMAGING; NAVIGATOR ECHO; PULSATILE BLOOD FLOW; RESPIRATION TRIGGERING; RESPIRATORY GATINGS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SIGNAL FLUCTUATIONS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 62649113985     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21846     Document Type: Article

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