Serial postmortem relaxometry in the normal rat brain and following stroke

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 469-475

  Fagan, Andrew J ^a,b   Mullin, Jim M ^b,c   Gallagher, Lindsay ^b   Hadley, Donald M ^c   Macrae, I Mhairi ^c   Condon, Barrie ^c  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autopsy; MRI; Post mortem; Relaxation times; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELAXOMETRY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STROKE; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40449117960     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21246     Document Type: Article

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