In vivo evaluation of retinal and callosal projections in early postnatal development and plasticity using manganese-enhanced mri and diffusion tensor imaging

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2274-2283

  Chan, Kevin C ^a,b,c   Cheng, Joe S ^a   Fan, Shujuan ^a   Zhou, Iris Y ^a   Yang, Jian ^d   Wu, Ed X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MEDICAL SCHOOL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Early postnatal development; Manganese enhanced MRI; Plasticity; Retinal projection; Visual callosal projection

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR DEPRIVATION; BLINDNESS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG TRANSPORT; DRUG UPTAKE; ENUCLEATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; IMMATURITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RAT; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINOCOLLICULAR PROJECTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84855432496     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.055     Document Type: Article

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