Imaging the rat brain on a 1.5 T clinical MR-scanner

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 77-85

  Guzman, R ^a   Lovblad K O ^a   Meyer, M ^a,b   Spenger, C ^c   Schroth, G ^a   Widmer, H R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

6 OHDA; Brain anatomy; Huntington's disease; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neural transplantation; Parkinson's disease; Quinolinic acid; Rat

Indexed keywords

OXIDOPAMINE; QUINOLINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMAGING; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOVEMENT; OXIDOPAMINE; PARKINSON DISEASE, SECONDARY; PERFUSION; PREGNANCY; QUINOLINIC ACID; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYMPATHECTOMY, CHEMICAL; SYMPATHOLYTICS;

EID: 0342264720     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(00)00172-2     Document Type: Article

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