Diffusion tensor imaging to assess axonal regeneration in peripheral nerves

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 238-244

  Lehmann, Helmar C ^a,b   Zhang, Jiangyang ^a   Mori, Susumu ^a   Sheikh, Kazim A ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; DTI; MRI; Nerve; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EX VIVO STUDY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; AXONS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HINDLIMB; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77950860824     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.10.012     Document Type: Article

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