High-resolution diffusion-weighted MR of fresh and fixed cat spinal cords: Evaluation of diffusion coefficients and anisotropy

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1049-1056

  Pattany, Pradip M ^a   Puckett, William R ^b   Klose, Karl J ^a,b   Quencer, Robert M ^a   Bunge, Richard P ^a,b   Kasuboski, Larry ^c   Weaver, Raymond G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c Picker International   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal studies; Magnetic resonance, diffusion weighted; Spinal cord, magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANISOTROPY; CAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; CATS; DIFFUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0031545910     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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