Very high resolution ultrasound imaging for real-time quantitative visualization of vascular disruption after spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 1767-1775

  Soubeyrand, Marc ^a   Badner, Anna ^a,c   Vawda, Reaz ^a   Chung, Young Sun ^a   Fehlings, Michael G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

blood spinal cord barrier; echography; hemorrhage; spinal cord injury; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

EVANS BLUE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; GRAY MATTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RAT; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPINAL HEMATOMA; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VASCULAR DISEASE; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION ULTRASOUND; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LAMINECTOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VASCULARIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LAMINECTOMY; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; VASCULAR SYSTEM INJURIES;

EID: 84912080459     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2013.3319     Document Type: Article

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