In vivo diffusion tensor imaging of the rat spinal cord at 9.4T

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 634-642

  Ellingson, Benjamin M ^a   Kurpad, Shekar N ^b   Li, Shi Jiang ^b   Schmit, Brian D ^a  

^a Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; DTI; MRI; Rat; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CAUDA EQUINA; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TIME; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 40449121552     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21249     Document Type: Article

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