Ex vivo magnetic resonance imaging of rat spinal cord at 9.4 T

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 601-605

  Bilgen, Mehmet ^a,b   Al Hafez, Baraa ^a   Malone, Thomas M ^a   Smirnova, Irina V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast; Contrast enhancement; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetization transfer; Relaxation time; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EX VIVO STUDY; GRAY MATTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 20344394129     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2005.02.003     Document Type: Article

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