1. Nuclear magnetic resonance study of lung water compartments in the rat
- Author
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Shioya, Sumie, Haida, Munetaka, Fukuzaki, Minoru, Kurita, Daisaku, Tsuji, Chizuko, Ohta, Yasuyo, and Yamabayashi, Hajime
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Nuclear magnetic resonance -- Physiological aspects ,Water in the body -- Physiological aspects ,Lungs -- Physiological aspects ,Pulmonary alveoli -- Physiological aspects ,Biological sciences - Abstract
The effects of lung water compartments (WCs) on the fast nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) transverse relaxation time (T2f) and T2 slow (T2s) decay curves were analyzed in peripheral lung tissues. Analysis of multiexponential NMR T2 decay curves in peripheral lung tissues indicated the direct relationship of alveolar wall WCs to T2f NMR components compared to T2s. The relationship between alveolar WCs and T2f was also exhibited by the effects of intravascular osmotic pressure on pulmonary intracellular water.
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- 1997