Magnetic analysis of human brain tissue

BioMetals

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-72

  Schultheiss Grassi, Paola P ^a   Dobson, Jon ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Magnetite

Indexed keywords

FERRIC OXIDE; LIQUID NITROGEN; MAGNETITE;

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEPTOMENINX; MAGNETISM; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MIDDLE AGED;

HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS;

EID: 0032973133     PISSN: 09660844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009271111083     Document Type: Article

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