Ultrashort echo time (UTE) MRI of the lung: Assessment of tissue density in the lung parenchyma

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1491-1498

  Togao, Osamu ^a   Tsuji, Riki ^a   Ohno, Yoshiharu ^b   Dimitrov, Ivan ^a,c   Takahashi, Masaya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Positive end expiratory pressure; Pulmonary MRI; Tissue density; Ultra short echo time

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAMMALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE;

ECHO TIME; FREE INDUCTION DECAY; INTERSTITIAL TISSUES; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURES; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; TISSUE DENSITY; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIUM; LUNG; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG PRESSURE; LUNG VOLUME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 78349261177     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22521     Document Type: Article

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