Academic Radiology
Volume 16, Issue 1 , Pages 22-27 , January 2009

Lung Motion and Volume Measurement by Dynamic 3D MRI Using a 128-Channel Receiver Coil

  • Junichi Tokuda, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115
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  • Melanie Schmitt, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA
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  • Yanping Sun, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115
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  • Samuel Patz, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115
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  • Yi Tang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115
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  • Carolyn E. Mountford, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115
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  • Nobuhiko Hata, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115
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  • Lawrence L. Wald, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences Technology, Cambridge, MA
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  • Hiroto Hatabu, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: H.H.

Received 21 April 2008 ,Accepted 7 July 2008.

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1 This work was supported in part by grant R21CA116271-02 from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

PII: S1076-6332(08)00453-4

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.07.021

Academic Radiology
Volume 16, Issue 1 , Pages 22-27 , January 2009

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