Ultrashort echo time MRI of pulmonary water content: Assessment in a sponge phantom at 1.5 and 3.0 Tesla

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 34-41

  Molinari, Francesco ^a   Madhuranthakam, Ananth J ^b   Lenkinski, Robert ^a   Bankier, Alexander A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON; WATER;

ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING PHANTOM; INFORMATION MODEL; LUNG EXTRAVASCULAR FLUID; LUNG FLUID; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WATER CONTENT; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; LUNG; PROCEDURES; SURGICAL SPONGE; TIME;

LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SURGICAL SPONGES; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 84891716006     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5152/dir.2013.13232     Document Type: Article

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