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KMID : 1137820100310020094
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의공학회지
2010 Volume.31 No. 2 p.94 ~ p.98
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MREIT Conductivity Imaging of Pneumonic Canine Lungs: Preliminary Post-mortem Study
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Kim Hyung-Joong
Kim Young-Tae
Jeong Woo-Chul
Minhas Atul S.
Lee Tae-Hwi
Lim Chae-Young
Park Hee-Myung
Kwon O-Jung
Woo Eung-Je
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Abstract
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In magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (MREIT), a current-injection MR imaging method is adopted to produce a cross-sectional image of an electrical conductivity distribution in addition to MR images. The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of MREIT for differentiating the canine lung parenchyma without and with pneumonia. Three normal healthy beagles and two mixed breed dogs with pneumonia were used. After attaching electrodes around the chest, we placed the dog inside our MR scanner. We injected as much as 30 mA current in a form of short pulses into the chest region. Reconstructed conductivity images of normal canine lungs exhibit a peculiar pattern of a relatively coarse salt and pepper noise. On the contrary, conductivity images of pneumonic canine lungs show significantly enhanced contrast of the lesions while the corresponding MR images show a little bit of contrast in the middle and caudal lung parenchyma due to the accumulation of pleural fluid. This preliminary study indicates that MREIT imaging of the chest may deliver unique new diagnostic information.
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KEYWORD
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magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography, conductivity image, pneumonia, lung parenchyma
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