In vivo diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging and fiber tracking of the mouse brain

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 884-896

  Harsan, Laura Adela ^a   Paul, Dominik ^a   Schnell, Susanne ^a   Kreher, Bjorn W ^a   Hennig, Jürgen ^a   Staiger, Jochen F ^b   Von Elverfeldt, Dominik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Connectivity; Diffusion tensor; Fiber tracking; Mouse brain

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALA; CONNECTIVITY; DIFFUSION TENSOR; FIBER TRACKING; MOUSE BRAIN;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FIBERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESONANCE; SPINNING (FIBERS);

TENSORS;

ALGORITHM; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL SYSTEM; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 78650424520     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1496     Document Type: Article

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