Measurement of lung airways in three dimensions using hyperpolarized helium-3 MRI

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3107-3122

  Peterson, Eric T ^a   Dai, Jionghan ^b   Holmes, James H ^b,c   Fain, Sean B ^a,b,d  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY DIAMETER; AIRWAY SEGMENTS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GOLD STANDARDS; HELIUM-3; HUMAN SUBJECTS; HYPERPOLARIZED; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG AIRWAYS; PATH ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE CT; SEMI-AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; SKELETONIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HELIUM; IONIZING RADIATION; RADIATION SHIELDING; RADIOACTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; HELIUM; ISOTOPE;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HELIUM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ISOTOPES; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955370562     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/10/014     Document Type: Article

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