Lung parenchymal signal intensity in MRI: A technical review with educational aspirations regarding reversible versus irreversible transverse relaxation effects in common pulse sequences

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A: Bridging Education and Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 29-53

  Mulkern, Robert ^a   Haker, Steven ^b   Mamata, Hatsuho ^b   Lee, Edward ^a   Mitsouras, Dimitrios ^b   Oshio, Koichi ^b   Balasubramanian, Mukund ^a   Hatabu, Hiroto ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Interstitial lung disease; Lung parenchyma; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pulse sequence analysis; Thoracic imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903196199     PISSN: 15466086     EISSN: 15525023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.a.21297     Document Type: Article

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