Visualization of peripheral nerve degeneration and regeneration: Monitoring with diffusion tensor tractography

NeuroImage

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 884-892

  Takagi, Takehiko ^a   Nakamura, Masaya ^a   Yamada, Masayuki ^c,d   Hikishima, Keigo ^b,c   Momoshima, Suketaka ^a   Fujiyoshi, Kanehiro ^a   Shibata, Shinsuke ^a   Okano, Hirotaka James ^a   Toyama, Yoshiaki ^a   Okano, Hideyuki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion tensor tractography; Fractional anisotropy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Peripheral nerve injury; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

MYELIN; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR TRACTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MODULATION; MONITORING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MYELINATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY SYSTEM; THEORY; THICKNESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGENERATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 57649219944     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.09.022     Document Type: Article

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