Application of thinned-skull cranial window to mouse cerebral blood flow imaging using optical microangiography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Li, Yuandong ^a   Baran, Utku ^a,b   Wang, Ruikang K ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CORTEX; DOPPLER OPTICAL MICROANGIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; MICROVASCULATURE; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OPEN SKULL CRANIAL WINDOW; RHEOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; THINNED SKULL CRANIAL WINDOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANIMAL; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN VEIN; C57BL MOUSE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SKULL; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL VEINS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SKULL;

EID: 84913580316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113658     Document Type: Article

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