A compact respiratory-triggering device for routine microimaging of laboratory mice

✍ Scribed by Kevin R. Minard; Robert A. Wind; Robyn L. Phelps

• Book ID: 102906594
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 770 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1053-1807
• DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880080626

✦ Synopsis

A partial-body plethysmograph was developed for measuring the respiratory flow of anesthetized mice during routine microimaging experiments performed in the close confines of an 89-mm-diameter, vertical-bore magnet. Respiratory flow patterns were used for synchronizing conventional T2-weighted spin-echo imaging with the respiratory cycle, thereby, significantly reducing motion-induced artifacts and increasing observed liver lesion contrast.