Mapping of retinal projections in the living rat using high-resolution 3D gradient-echo MRI with Mn2+-induced contrast

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 424-429

  Watanabe, Takashi ^a   Michaelis, Thomas ^a   Frahm, Jens ^a  

^a Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Manganese; Neuroanatomic tract tracing; Retinal projection

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; RATS;

HIGH RESOLUTION; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; POST INJECTION; RETINAL PROJECTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TRACT-TRACING; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

MANGANESE CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC TRACT; RAT; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0034845549     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1209     Document Type: Article

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