Does loss of gray- and white-matter contrast in injured spinal cord signify secondary injury? In vivo longitudinal MRI studies

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 315-320

  Narayana, Ponnada ^a   Abbe, Russell ^a   Liu, Shi Jie ^a   Johnston, Dennis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Gray matter white matter contrast; MRI; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; TISSUE;

INCLINED-PLANE TESTS; INJURED SPINAL CORDS; MEMBRANE STABILITY; RAT SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES (SCI); STRONG CORRELATION; TRANSIENT LOSS; WHITE MATTER;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CHOLESTEROL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; GRAY MATTER; IN VIVO STUDY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0032966462     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199902)41:2<315::AID-MRM15>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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