Alteration of diffusion tensor parameters in postmortem brain

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 865-870

  Widjaja, Elysa ^a   Wei, Xingchang ^b   Vidarsson, Logi ^a   Moineddin, Rahim ^c   Macgowan, Christopher K ^a,d   Nilsson, Daniel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain; Diffusion tensor imaging; Postmortem

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TISSUE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEATH; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EX VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; SWINE; TISSUE FIXATION; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

SUIDAE;

EID: 67349128030     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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