Visualisation of the extent of damage in a rat spinal cord injury model using MR microscopy of the water diffusion tensor

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 255-264

  Krzyzak, Artur T ^a   Jasiński, Andrzej ^a   Wȩglarz, Władysław P ^a   Adamek, Dariusz ^b   Sagnowski, Piotr ^b   Baj, Monika ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Diffusion anisotropy; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Magnetic resonance microscopy; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EDEMA; GRAY MATTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WATER;

EID: 24144460529     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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