Diffusion tensor imaging of diffuse axonal injury in a rat brain trauma model

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 93-103

  van de Looij, Yohan ^a   Mauconduit, Franck ^a   Beaumont, Marine ^a   Valable, Samuel ^a   Farion, Régine ^a   Francony, Gilles ^a   Payen, Jean François ^a   Lahrech, Hana ^a  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUT DES NEUROSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

Diffuse axonal injury; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fiber tracking; Fractional anisotropy; Impact acceleration model; Rat brain; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FIBER TRACKING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; RAT BRAIN; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION; DISEASES; FIBERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RATS; SPINNING (FIBERS); TISSUE;

TENSORS;

MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRANIAL NERVE; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BUTADIENES; CALIBRATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELASTOMERS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPIN LABELS;

RATTUS;

EID: 84855883307     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1721     Document Type: Article

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