In vivo diffusion tensor imaging of thoracic and cervical rat spinal cord at 7 T

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1236-1241

  Mogatadakala, Kishore V ^a   Narayana, Ponnada A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic measures; Auto shimming; Cervical cord; DTI; MRI; Phased array coil; Rat; Spinal cord; Thoracic cord

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; WATER;

RATTUS;

EID: 70349792672     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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