Gadolinium-bearing red cells as blood pool MRI contrast agents

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 133-142

  Johnson, Kevin M ^a   Tao, Jing Zang ^a   Kennan, Richard P ^a   Gore, John C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Erythrocytes; Longitudinal relaxation enhancement; Magnetic resonance imaging; Paramagnetic contrast agent; Transverse relaxation enhancement

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RATE CONSTANTS; RATS;

ERYTHROCYTES; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION; MECHANICAL DEFORMABILITY; MRI CONTRAST AGENTS; PARAMAGNETIC CONTRASTS; PLASMA CLEARANCES; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION RATE;

BLOOD;

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG HALF LIFE; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN AFFINITY; PLASMA CLEARANCE; RAT;

EID: 7144227272     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910400118     Document Type: Article

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