Quantitative pulmonary perfusion magnetic resonance imaging: Influence of temporal resolution and signal-to-noise ratio

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-14

  Ingrisch, Michael ^a   Dietrich, Olaf ^a   Attenberger, Ulrike I ^b   Nikolaou, Konstantin ^a   Sourbron, Steven ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Fink, Christian ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic contrast enhanced MRI; Lung; Perfusion; Pulmonary blood flow and volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG BLOOD VOLUME; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG PERFUSION; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

EID: 74049135481     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181bc2d0c     Document Type: Article

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