Imaging of a mixture of hyperpolarized 3He and 129Xe

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1077-1083

  Acosta, R H ^a   Blumler P ^a   Han, S ^a,b   Appelt, S ^c   Hasing F W ^c   Schmiedeskamp, J ^d   Heil, W ^d   Spiess, H W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

He; Hyperpolarized gases; Lungs; MRI; Xe

Indexed keywords

HELIUM 3; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENON 129;

AIRWAY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HELIUM; ISOTOPES; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICE; XENON ISOTOPES;

EID: 7544242321     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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