Longitudinal assessment of white matter pathology in the injured mouse spinal cord through ultra-high field (16.4T) in vivo diffusion tensor imaging

NeuroImage

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 574-585

  Brennan, Faith H ^a   Cowin, Gary J ^a   Kurniawan, Nyoman D ^a   Ruitenberg, Marc J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Demyelination; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neurotrauma; Spinal cord injury; Tractography; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETER; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VENTRAL ROOT; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION; WHITE MATTER;

Λ(⊥); Λ(||); AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; DCS; DEMYELINATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DORSAL COLUMNS; DTI; FA; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; LATERAL FUNICULI; LF; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MD; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; MRI; NEUROTRAUMA; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; SCI; SPINAL CORD INJURY; T; TESLA; TRACTOGRAPHY; VENTRAL FUNICULI; VF; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION; WHITE MATTER; WM;

ANIMALS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84880019746     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.06.019     Document Type: Article

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