Postmortem MRI of human brain hemispheres: T2 relaxation times during formaldehyde fixation

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 810-818

  Dawe, Robert J ^a   Bennett, David A ^b   Schneider, Julie A ^b   Vasireddi, Sunil K ^a   Arfanakis, Konstantinos ^a,c  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MIRC   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixation; MRI; Postmortem

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; FORMALDEHYDE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NITROGEN FIXATION; RELAXATION TIME;

CHEMICAL FIXATION; FIXATION PROCESS; FIXATION TIME; FORMALDEHYDE SOLUTIONS; IN-VIVO IMAGING; NATURAL TISSUES; POSTMORTEM; TISSUE SPECIMENS;

TISSUE;

FORMALDEHYDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; DECOMPOSITION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN PRESERVATION; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY; SIMULATION; TISSUE CULTURE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 66249130349     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21909     Document Type: Article

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