In vivo diffusion tensor imaging of rat spinal cord with echo planar imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 300-306

  Fenyes, David A ^a   Narayana, Ponnada A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion anisotropy; Echo planar imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOLOGY; TENSORS;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; APPARENT DIFFUSION TENSOR; DIFFUSION ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION-SENSITIZING GRADIENTS; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; INVARIANT PARAMETERS; LATTICE ANISOTROPY; SPINAL CORDS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DIFFUSION; GRAY MATTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPINAL CORD; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0032819455     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199908)42:2<300::AID-MRM12>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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