Effect of degeneration of the intervertebral disk on the process of diffusion

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 435-442

  Nguyen Minh, Canh ^a   Riley III, Lee ^a   Ho, Khang Cheng ^a   Xu, Roming ^a   An, Howard ^a   Haughton, Victor M ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b FROEDTERT MEMORIAL LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal studies; Spine, intervertebral disks; Spine, magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOG; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINE SCINTISCANNING;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIFFUSION; DISKECTOMY; DOGS; FEMALE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0030964832     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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