Quantification of pulmonary blood flow (PBF): Validation of perfusion MRI and nonlinear contrast agent (CA) dose correction with H2 15O positron emission tomography (PET)

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 476-487

  Neeb, Daniel ^a   Kunz, Rainer Peter ^a   Ley, Sebastian ^b   Szábo, Gábor ^c   Strauss, Ludwig G ^d   Kauczor, Hans Ulrich ^b   Kreitner, Karl Friedrich ^a   Schreiber, Laura Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; PET; Pulmonary perfusion; Quantification; Validation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMALS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTERIAL INPUT FUNCTION; DIETHYLENETRIAMINE PENTA-ACETIC ACIDS; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION TIME; NON-LINEAR CONTRAST AGENTS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); PULMONARY PERFUSION; QUANTIFICATION; VALIDATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; WATER O 15;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG PERFUSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RELAXATION TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SWINE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; GADOLINIUM DTPA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; PERFUSION IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; WATER;

EID: 67749145553     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22025     Document Type: Article

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