If the skull fits: Magnetic resonance imaging and microcomputed tomography for combined analysis of brain and skull phenotypes in the mouse

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 44, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 992-1002

  Nieman, Brian J ^a,b   Blank, Marissa C ^c   Roman, Brian B ^c   Mark Henkelman, R ^a,b   Millen, Kathleen J ^d,e  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniofacial development; Dandy walker malformation; Mouse imaging; Mouse phenotyping; Ocu lodentodigital dysplasia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCULODENTODIGITAL SYNDROME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; DANDY-WALKER SYNDROME; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FOOT DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHENOTYPE; SKULL; SYNDACTYLY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOOTH ABNORMALITIES;

EID: 84867733830     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00093.2012     Document Type: Article

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