q-space and conventional diffusion imaging of axon and myelin damage in the rat spinal cord after axotomy

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1323-1335

  Farrell, Jonathan A D ^a,b   Zhang, Jiangyang ^a   Jones, Melina V ^a   DeBoy, Cynthia A ^a   Hoffman, Paul N ^a   Landman, Bennett A ^c   Smith, Seth A ^a,b   Reich, Daniel S ^a   Calabresi, Peter A ^a   Van Zijl, Peter C M ^a,b  

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

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Diffusion kurtosis; Q space imaging; Spinal cord; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; HISTOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIOLOGY; RATS;

AXOTOMY; DIFFUSIVITY MEASUREMENTS; DISPLACEMENT PROBABILITY; PERPENDICULAR DIFFUSION; Q-SPACE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DISPLACEMENT; SPINAL CORDS; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

DIFFUSION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DORSAL ROOT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RAT; SPINAL CORD; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEWIS RAT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; AXOTOMY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYELIN SHEATH; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 77955297372     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22389     Document Type: Article

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