Signal-to-noise ratio for hyperpolarized 3He MR imaging of human lungs: A 1.5 T and 3 T comparison

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1400-1404

  Dominguez Viqueira, William ^a,b   Ouriadov, Alexei ^b   O'Halloran, Rafael ^c   Fain, Sean B ^d   Santyr, Giles E ^b,e  

^a Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

lungs; magnetic field strength; SNR

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; INERT GASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHASE INTERFACES;

CLINICAL SYSTEMS; FIELD STRENGTHS; HYPERPOLARIZED; INDUCED FIELD; LUNG IMAGING; LUNGS; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTHS; TISSUE INTERFACE;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

HELIUM;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 80054822619     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22920     Document Type: Article

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