Preparation of fixed mouse brains for MRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 933-939

  Cahill, Lindsay S ^a   Laliberté, Christine L ^a   Ellegood, Jacob ^a   Spring, Shoshana ^a   Gleave, Jacqueline A ^a   van Eede, Matthijs C ^a   Lerch, Jason P ^a   Henkelman, R Mark ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mouse brain; MRI; Paraformaldehyde; Perfusion; Tissue fixation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; BRAIN CAPILLARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW RATE; GRAY MATTER; MOUSE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TISSUE FIXATION; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84857011423     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.100     Document Type: Article

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