Images of Spinal Nerves and Adjacent Structures With Optical Coherence Tomography: Preliminary Animal Studies

Journal of Pain

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 767-773

  Raphael, David T ^a   Yang, Changhuei ^b   Tresser, Nancy ^b   Wu, Jigang ^b   Zhang, Yaoping ^a   Rever, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; dura; imaging; intervertebral foramen; medullary artery; optical coherence tomography; radicular artery; spinal nerve root

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BRAIN DISEASE; CAUDA EQUINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DURA MATER; ENDOSCOPY; EX VIVO STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERVENTION STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RABBIT; SPINAL ROOT; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; RABBITS; SPINAL NERVES; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 34848867161     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2007.04.006     Document Type: Article

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