MR Imaging of Lungs and Airways in Children:: Past and Present.

MRI has historically been underused to evaluate the lungs and airways in children because of challenging technical factors leading to suboptimal image quality. Advances over the past several years have made MR imaging a feasible option to evaluate various disorders of the chest in pediatric patients. This review article discusses up-to-date techniques and protocols for MR imaging of the lungs and airways in children. MR imaging findings in commonly encountered disorders of the lungs and airways are also reviewed.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America

• Publication date

  2019-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.mric.2019.01.002PMID 30910094
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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