Emphysema quantification in inflation-fixed lungs using low-dose computed tomography and 3he magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 773-779

  Gierada, David S ^a   Woods, Jason C ^b   Jacob, Richard E ^b   Bierhals, Andrew J ^a   Choong, Cliff K ^c   Bartel, Seth T ^a   Chang, Yulin V ^b   Das, Nitin A ^c   Hong, Cheng ^a   Lutey, Barbara A ^d   Ritter, Jon H ^e   Pilgram, Thomas K ^a   Cooper, Joel D ^c   Patterson, G Alexander ^c   Battafarano, Richard J ^c   Meyers, Bryan F ^c   Yablonskiy, Dmitriy A ^a   Conradi, Mark S ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Physics ^*  (United States)

^c Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery   (United States)

^d Division of Pulmonary   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Emphysema; MR; Quantitative imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY DISEASES; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

3HE; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; EMPHYSEMA; EMPHYSEMA QUANTIFICATION; LOW DOSE; LUNG TISSUE; MEASUREMENTS OF; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

FORMALDEHYDE; HELIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG INFLATION; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HELIUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77958140271     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e3181e480f9     Document Type: Article

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