Comprehensive small animal imaging strategies on a clinical 3 T dedicated head mr-scanner; adapted methods and sequence protocols in CNS pathologies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Pillai, Deepu R ^a,b   Heidemann, Robin M ^c,d   Kumar, Praveen ^a,e   Shanbhag, Nagesh ^a   Lanz, Titus ^f   Dittmar, Michael S ^a   Sandner, Beatrice ^a   Beier, Christoph P ^a,e   Weidner, Norbert ^a,g   Greenlee, Mark W ^h   Schuierer, Gerhard ^a   Bogdahn, Ulrich ^a   Schlachetzki, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^f RAPID BIOMEDICAL GMBH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; CALCULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GLIOBLASTOMA; GRAY MATTER; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHENOTYPE; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINE INJURY; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BODY SIZE; CALIBRATION; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE MODEL; EVALUATION; HEAD; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RODENT; STANDARD; TUMOR CELL CULTURE; WISTAR RAT; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CALIBRATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RODENTIA; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 79951535418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016091     Document Type: Article

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