Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain in APP Transgenic Mice: A Cohort Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Müller, Hans Peter ^a   Kassubek, Jan ^a   Vernikouskaya, Ina ^a   Ludolph, Albert C ^a   Stiller, Detlef ^b   Rasche, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOUSE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PUTAMEN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COHORT STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84879527787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067630     Document Type: Article

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