Comparison of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Live vs. Post Mortem Rat Brains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Oguz, Ipek ^a,b   Yaxley, Richard ^a   Budin, Francois ^a   Hoogstoel, Marion ^a   Lee, Joohwi ^b   Maltbie, Eric ^a   Liu, Wen ^a   Crews, Fulton T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SIZE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERINATAL PERIOD; RAT;

ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84881491743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071027     Document Type: Article

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