In vivo imaging of the diseased nervous system

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 449-463

  Misgeld, Thomas ^a   Kerschensteiner, Martin ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEMYELINATION; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; LASER MICROSCOPY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOTOXICITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEIZURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RATS; SEIZURES;

EID: 33745740498     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1905     Document Type: Review

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