In vivo lung morphometry with hyperpolarized 3He diffusion MRI: Reproducibility and the role of diffusion-sensitizing gradient direction

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1252-1257

  Quirk, James D ^a   Chang, Yulin V ^a   Yablonskiy, Dmitriy A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Helium; Hyperpolarized gas; Lung morphometry; MRI; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HELIUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DIFFUSION-SENSITIZING GRADIENTS; HYPERPOLARIZED; MICROSTRUCTURAL PARAMETERS; MORPHOMETRY; NONINVASIVE MEASUREMENTS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SENSITIVE TECHNIQUES;

DIFFUSION;

HELIUM; HYPERPOLARIZED HELIUM 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CONTRAST MEDIUM; ISOTOPE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION SENSITIZING GRADIENT DIRECTION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG STRUCTURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REPRODUCIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HELIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ISOTOPES; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923138531     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25241     Document Type: Article

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