In vivo DTI evaluation of white matter tracts in rat spinal cord

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 231-234

  Gullapalli, Jayaroop ^a   Krejza, Jaroslaw ^a,b   Schwartz, Eric D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; DTI; MRI; Rat; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; AXONS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 33745686041     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20622     Document Type: Article

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