MRI compatible small animal monitoring and trigger system for whole body scanners

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 55-64

  Herrmann, Karl Heinz ^a   Pfeiffer, Norman ^a,b   Krumbein, Ines ^a   Herrmann, Lutz ^b   Reichenbach, Jürgen R ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motion suppression; MRI; Physiological monitoring; Respiratory trigger; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATHING RATE; COIL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VIBRATION; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

ATEMTRIGGERUNG; BEWEGUNGSUNTERDRÜCKUNG; KLEINTIERBILDGEBUNG; MOTION SUPPRESSION; MRI; MRT; PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGISCHE ÜBERWACHUNG; RESPIRATORY TRIGGER; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84894452354     PISSN: 09393889     EISSN: 18764436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2013.07.005     Document Type: Article

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