Use of high resolution 3D diffusion tensor imaging to study brain white matter development in live neonatal rats

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2011, Pages

  Cai, Yu ^a   McMurray, Matthew S ^b   Oguz, Ipek ^a,b   Yuan, Hong ^a   Styner, Martin A ^a,b   Lin, Weili ^a   Johns, Josephine M ^a,b   An, Hongyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain development; Diffusion tensor imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neonatal rats; White matter

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHED RAPID ACQUISITION RELAXATION ENHANCEMENT; EX VIVO STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HIGH RESOLUTION THREE DIMENSIONAL DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HYPOTHERMIA; IMAGE ACQUISITION TIME; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84866841991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00054     Document Type: Article

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