Ventilation/perfusion imaging of the lung using ultra-short echo time (UTE) MRI in an animal model of pulmonary embolism

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 539-546

  Togao, Osamu ^a   Ohno, Yoshiharu ^b   Dimitrov, Ivan ^a,c   Hsia, Connie C ^d   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)

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

Author keywords

pulmonary embolism; pulmonary MRI; pulmonary perfusion; ultra short echo time (UTE) MRI; ventilation; ventilation perfusion mismatch

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VENTILATION DISTRIBUTION; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OXYGEN BREATHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME; ULTRA SHORT ECHO TIME;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 80051944922     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22645     Document Type: Article

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