Quantification of lymphedema in a rat model by 3D-active contour segmentation by magnetic resonance imaging

Lymphatic Research and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-29

  Sommer, Tanja ^a   Meier, Martin ^a   Bruns, Frank ^a   Pabst, Reinhard ^a   Breves, Gerhard ^b   Hadamitzky, Catarina ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; INGUINAL REGION; KNEE; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHEDEMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPLITEAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOTHERAPY; RAT; SWELLING;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EDEMA; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; LYMPHEDEMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW;

EID: 84859089429     PISSN: 15396851     EISSN: 15578585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lrb.2011.0010     Document Type: Article

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