Radiation effects in the rat spinal cord: Evaluation with apparent diffusion coefficient versus T2 at serial MR imaging

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 387-397

  Philippens, Marielle E P ^a   Gambarota, Giulio ^a   Van Der Kogel, Albert J ^a   Heerschap, Arend ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN NECROSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GRAY MATTER; HISTOLOGY; IRRADIATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RAT; RELAXATION TRAINING; SPINAL CORD; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; WHITE MATTER; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WISTAR RAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 61749095300     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2502071374     Document Type: Article

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