Diffusion tensor imaging reveals white matter injury in a rat model of repetitive blast-induced traumatic brain injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 938-950

  Calabrese, Evan ^a   Du, Fu ^b   Garman, Robert H ^c   Johnson, G Allan ^a   Riccio, Cory ^d   Tong, Lawrence C ^d   Long, Joseph B ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b FD Neuro Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

blast neurotrauma; diffusion tensor imaging; MRI; traumatic brain injury; voxelwise analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLAST INDUCED TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BLAST INJURY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MACHINE CONSOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING EQUIPMENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXPOSURE; GRADIENT COIL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NEUROLOGICAL EQUIPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RAT MODEL; SENSITIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VOXELWISE ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER INJURY; ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MODEL; MALE; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84899801993     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2013.3144     Document Type: Article

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