In vivo fiber tracking in the rat brain on a clinical 3T MRI system using a high strength insert gradient coil

NeuroImage

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1077-1085

  Mayer, Dirk ^a   Zahr, Natalie M ^a   Adalsteinsson, Elfar ^b,c   Rutt, Brian ^d   Sullivan, Edith V ^a   Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^a,e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

^d ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN DISEASE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FIBER TRACKING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION FIELD; RAT; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33947721611     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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