Probing lung microstructure with hyperpolarized noble gas diffusion MRI: Theoretical models and experimental results

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 486-505

  Yablonskiy, Dmitriy A ^a   Sukstanskii, Alexander L ^a   Quirk, James D ^a   Woods, Jason C ^a   Conradi, Mark S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion MRI; hyperpolarized gas; lung alveoli; lung morphometry; MRI

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN GASES; INERT GASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSTRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION MRIS; HYPERPOLARIZED; LUNG ALVEOLI; MORPHOMETRY; SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION; TOMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

HELIUM; HELIUM 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENON; XENON 129; INERT GAS; TRITIUM;

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ASTHMA; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELASTASE-INDUCED EMPHYSEMA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GAS DIFFUSION; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG ALVEOLUS SURFACE TENSION; LUNG ALVEOLUS WALL; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DIFFUSION; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG INFLATION; LUNG INJURY; LUNG MICROSTRUCTURE; LUNG STRUCTURE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION; LUNG; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOBLE GASES; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; TRITIUM; XENON ISOTOPES;

EID: 84892441920     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24729     Document Type: Review

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