In vivo quantitative whole-brain diffusion tensor imaging analysis of APP/PS1 transgenic mice using voxel-based and atlas-based methods

Neuroradiology

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1027-1038

  Qin, Yuan Yuan ^a,b   Li, Mu Wei ^b   Zhang, Shun ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Zhao, Ling Yun ^a   Lei, Hao ^c   Oishi, Kenichi ^b   Zhu, Wen Zhen ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Animal investigation; Brain; CNS; Dementia; MR diffusion

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLAS BASED ANALYSIS; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; CAPSULA INTERNA; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLAUSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXTERNAL CAPSULE; FIMBRIA; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OPTIC TRACT; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; PYRIFORM CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; THALAMUS; TRACE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VOXEL BASED ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE;

ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880851607     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: 14321920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-013-1195-0     Document Type: Article

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