Relationship between structural changes and hyperpolarized gas magnetic resonance imaging in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using computational simulations with realistic alveolar geometry

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1896, 2009, Pages 2347-2369

  Plotkowiak, Michal ^a   Burrowes, Kelly ^a   Wolber, Jan ^b   Buckley, Christopher ^b   Davies, Robert ^c   Gleeson, Fergus ^d   Gavaghan, David ^a   Grau, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United Kingdom)

^c Respiratory Unit   (United Kingdom)

^d CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apparent diffusion coefficient; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Hyperpolarized gas magnetic resonance imaging; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; HELIUM; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPIN POLARIZATION; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICES; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; HYPERPOLARIZED; HYPERPOLARIZED GAS MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGING PROTOCOL; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG MICROSTRUCTURES; LUNG STRUCTURES; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; NOBLE GAS; QUANTITATIVE VALIDATION; STATE OF THE ART; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

INERT GASES;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 67650914598     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0023     Document Type: Article

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