Non-invasive measurement of organ density in a rat simulated microgravity model

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 9 I, 2000, Pages 894-898

  Nathan, J M ^a   Bradshaw, B A ^a   Bartoletti, N ^a   Witten, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Microgravity; Organ density; Spiral computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY DENSITY; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUID SHIFT; HEAD TILTING; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FLUID SHIFTS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORGAN SIZE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISCERA; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 0033849655     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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