MRI-based quantification of cerebral edema in individual SHRSP rats using averaged criteria determined before the occurrence of edema

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 903-907

  Blezer, Erwin L A ^a,b   Nicolay, Klaas ^b   Viergever, Max A ^b   Koomans, Hein A ^a   Joles, Jaap A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebral edema; Quantification; SHRSP; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SALT LOADING; STROKE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RATS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 0033025848     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(99)00031-4     Document Type: Article

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