Altered diffusion tensor imaging measurements in aged transgenic Huntington disease rats

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 218, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 767-778

  Antonsen, Bjørnar T ^a   Jiang, Yi ^b   Veraart, Jelle ^c   Qu, Hong ^a   Nguyen, Huu Phuc ^d   Sijbers, Jan ^c   Von Hörsten, Stephan ^e   Johnson, G Allan ^b   Leergaard, Trygve B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neurodegenerative disease; Neuroimaging; Transgenic rat model

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DORSAL STRIATUM; ENTOPEDUNCULAR NUCLEUS; EX VIVO STUDY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TRANSGENIC RAT; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WILD TYPE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84879551907     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-012-0427-0     Document Type: Article

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