Imaging brain amyloid deposition using grating-based differential phase contrast tomography

NeuroImage

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1336-1346

  Pinzer, B R ^a   Cacquevel, M ^b   Modregger, P ^a,c   McDonald, S A ^d,e   Bensadoun, J C ^b   Thuering, T ^a,d   Aebischer, P ^b   Stampanoni, M ^a,d  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5xFAD; Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid; Imaging; Phase contrast; Tomography; X rays

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AMYLOID PLAQUE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENSITY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAFTING BASED DIFFERENTIAL PHASE CONTRAST TOMOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; PARAMETERS; PATHOLOGY; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUBICULUM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROIMAGING; PLAQUE, AMYLOID; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84861413879     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.03.029     Document Type: Article

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