Postmortem MR imaging of formalin-fixed human brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1585-1595

  Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^a,b   Sullivan, Edith V ^b   Adalsteinsson, Elfar ^b   Garrick, Therese ^c   Harper, Clive ^c  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Brain damage; Diffusion imaging; MRI; Neuroimaging; Neuropathology

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN SLICE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ECHOGRAPHY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROENVIRONMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME PERCEPTION; TISSUE NECROSIS; WATER CONTENT; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBELLUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 1842452861     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.11.024     Document Type: Article

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