Quantitative mouse brain phenotyping based on single and multispectral MR protocols

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1633-1645

  Badea, Alexandra ^a   Gewalt, Sally ^a   Avants, Brian B ^b   Cook, James J ^a   Johnson, G Allan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's mouse model; Automated segmentation; BXD; Magnetic resonance microscopy; Mouse brain; Phenotyping

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL DISEASE; MOUSE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHENOTYPE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84866291835     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.07.021     Document Type: Article

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