Post-mortem assessment of rat spinal cord injury and white matter sparing using inversion recovery-supported proton density magnetic resonance imaging

Spinal Cord

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 345-351

  Scholtes, F ^a,b   Theunissen, E ^c   Phan Ba, R ^a   Adriaensens, P ^d   Brook, G ^e   Franzen, R ^a   Gelan, J ^d   Schoenen, J ^a   Martin, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

inversion recovery; magnetic resonance imaging; proton density; rat; spinal cord injury; white matter sparing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RATING SCALE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROTONS; RATS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 79952391368     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2010.129     Document Type: Article

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