MR diffusion changes correlate with ultra-structurally defined axonal degeneration in murine optic nerve

NeuroImage

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1138-1147

  Wu, Qizhu ^a,b,e   Butzkueven, Helmut ^a,c   Gresle, Melissa ^a   Kirchhoff, Frank ^d   Friedhuber, Anna ^c   Yang, Qing ^a   Wang, Hong ^a   Fang, Ke ^a   Lei, Hao ^b   Egan, Gary F ^a,c   Kilpatrick, Trevor J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c Faculty of Medicine   (Australia)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Axonal injury; Diffusion weighted imaging; MRI; Optic neuritis; Principal diffusivities

Indexed keywords

MYELIN OLIGODENDROCYTE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NEURITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AXONS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; NERVE DEGENERATION; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 34548534415     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.06.029     Document Type: Article

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