3D micro-CT imaging of the postmortem brain

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 207-213

  de Crespigny, Alex ^a   Bou Reslan, Hani ^b   Nishimura, Merry C ^b   Phillips, Heidi ^b   Carano, Richard A D ^b   D'Arceuil, Helen E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Magnetic resonance microscopy; Micro CT; Pathology; Postmortem; Tumor

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; MYELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GLIOMA; GRAY MATTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; RABBITS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43449088232     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.03.006     Document Type: Article

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