Volumetric measurement of the hippocampus, the anterior cingulate cortex, and the retrosplenial granular cortex of the rat using structural MRI

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-46

  Wolf, O T ^b,c,d   Dyakin, V ^a   Vadasz, C ^a,b   De Leon, M J ^a,b   McEwen, B S ^c   Bulloch, K ^c  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; Hippocampus; In vivo; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Retrosplenial granular cortex; Ventricles; Volumetric measurement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELIABILITY; VOLUMETRY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATERAL VENTRICLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0036697383     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(02)00181-2     Document Type: Article

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