Formalin fixation alters water diffusion coefficient magnitude but not anisotropy in infarcted brain

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1447-1451

  Sun, Shu Wei ^a   Neil, Jeffrey J ^a   Liang, Hsiao Fang ^a   He, Yong Y ^a   Schmidt, Robert E ^a   Hsu, Chung Y ^b   Song, Sheng Kwei ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

DTI; Fixation; Ischemia; MCAO; Mouse brain

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; FORMALDEHYDE; HISTOLOGY; MAMMALS; NITROGEN FIXATION; TENSORS;

DIFFUSION ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION PARAMETERS; FORMALIN FIXATION; ISCHEMIA; MCAO; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSIONS; MOUSE BRAIN; WATER DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS;

TISSUE;

FORMALDEHYDE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE MODEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 19544369295     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20488     Document Type: Article

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