Assessing optic nerve pathology with diffusion MRI: From mouse to human

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 928-940

  Xu, Junqian ^a   Sun, Shu Wei ^b   Naismith, Robert T ^a   Snyder, Abraham Z ^a,b   Cross, Anne H ^a   Song, Sheng Kwei ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Directional diffusivity; Optic neuritis; Retinal ischemia; Wallerian degeneration; White matter

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; EYE PROTECTION; PATHOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; TENSORS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIRECTIONAL DIFFUSIVITY; RETINAL ISCHEMIA; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION; WHITE MATTER;

DIFFUSION;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANISOTROPY; AXONAL INJURY; DEMYELINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; OPTIC NEURITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ISCHEMIA; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MICE; NERVE DEGENERATION; OPTIC NERVE; RETINA; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

WALLERIA;

EID: 57149141944     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1307     Document Type: Review

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