Three-dimensional accurate detection of lung emphysema in rats using ultra-short and zero echo time MRI

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1471-1479

  Bianchi, Andrea ^a   Tibiletti, Marta ^b   Kjørstad, Åsmund ^c,d   Birk, Gerald ^a   Schad, Lothar R ^c   Stierstorfer, Birgit ^a   Rasche, Volker ^b   Stiller, Detlef ^a  

^a BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D UTE; COPD; Emphysema; Lung MRI; Micro CT; ZTE

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RATS;

3D UTE; COPD; EMPHYSEMA; LUNG MRIS; MICRO CT;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PANCREATIC ELASTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GOLD STANDARD; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WISTAR RAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84944675301     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3417     Document Type: Article

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