DTI for assessing axonal integrity after contusive spinal cord injury and transplantation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 82-85

  Bazley, Faith A ^a   Pourmorteza, Amir ^a   Gupta, Siddharth ^a   Pashai, Nikta ^a   Kerr, Candace ^a   All, Angelo H ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLUMINESCENCE IMAGING; CELL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; CELL SURVIVAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EX-VIVO; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; OLIGODENDROCYTES; PRECURSOR CELLS; PROGENITOR CELL; RAT MODEL; RAT SPINAL CORD; SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIALS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES (SCI); SPINAL CORDS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT REHABILITATION; STEM CELLS; TENSORS;

CYTOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; DISEASE MODEL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEURAL STEM CELL; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; RATS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84881067838     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6345876     Document Type: Conference Paper

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