Advantages and challenges of small animal magnetic resonance imaging as a translational tool

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 187-201

  Hoyer, Carolin ^a   Gass, Natalia ^b   Weber Fahr, Wolfgang ^b   Sartorius, Alexander ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal models; Magnetic resonance imaging; Translational research

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL SPIN LABELLING; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE MODEL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; CRYOGENIC COIL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING EQUIPMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE COIL; MANGANESE ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REGIONAL CEREBRAL BLOOD VOLUME; RESTING STATE FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SINGLE VOXEL MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; X NUCLEI MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN; DEVICES; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, ANIMAL; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84901123607     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: 14230224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000360859     Document Type: Review

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