Characterizing pulmonary blood flow distribution measured using arterial spin labeling

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1025-1035

  Henderson, A Cortney ^a   Prisk, G Kim ^a,b   Levin, David L ^b,c   Hopkins, Susan R ^a,b   Buxton, Richard B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; Lognormal; Pulmonary blood flow; Relative dispersion

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; BEFORE AND AFTER; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VOLUMES; FLOW HETEROGENEITY; GEOMETRIC STANDARD DEVIATIONS; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL SIMULATIONS; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; PULMONARY BLOOD FLOW; PULMONARY VASCULATURE; RELATIVE DISPERSION; SCALE PARAMETER; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; TEST CASE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD; DISPERSIONS; HEMODYNAMICS; LABELING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SPIN DYNAMICS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; DISPERSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; HEAD TILTING; HEART RATE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIN LABELING;

ARTERIES; FEMALE; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MALE; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 72749120111     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1407     Document Type: Article

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