Rapid, postmortem 9.4 T MRI of spinal cord injury: Correlation with histology and survival times

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 157-167

  Scholtes, Felix ^a,b   Phan Ba, Rémy ^a   Theunissen, Evi ^c   Adriaensens, Peter ^c   Brook, Gary ^d   Franzen, Rachelle ^a   Bouhy, Delphine ^a   Gelan, Jan ^c   Martin, Didier ^b   Schoenen, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Histology; Magnetic resonance imaging; Postmortem; Rat; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; PROTON;

ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDEMA; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCAR FORMATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD HEMORRHAGE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD LESION; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME;

EID: 50949127093     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.06.038     Document Type: Article

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