Rapid and robust pulmonary proton ZTE imaging in the mouse

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1129-1134

  Weiger, Markus ^a   Wu, Mingming ^a,b   Wurnig, Moritz C ^c   Kenkel, David ^c   Jungraithmayr, Wolfgang ^d   Boss, Andreas ^c   Pruessmann, Klaas P ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c University Hospital Zurich Institut fur Diagnostische Radiologie   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aliasing; Background suppression; Lung MRI; Respiratory triggering; Signal to noise ratio (SNR); Zero TE

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMALS; PROTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VIRTUAL ADDRESSES;

ALIASING; BACKGROUND SUPPRESSION; LUNG MRIS; RESPIRATORY TRIGGERING; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR);

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON LUNG NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT EXAMINATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ZERO ECHO TIME IMAGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84905922058     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3161     Document Type: Article

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