Viable and fixed white matter: Diffusion magnetic resonance comparisons and contrasts at physiological temperature

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1151-1161

  Richardson, Simon ^a   Siow, Bernard ^a   Panagiotaki, Eleftheria ^a   Schneider, Torben ^a   Lythgoe, Mark F ^a   Alexander, Daniel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion; DTI; Fixed; Modelling; MRI; Multi compartment; Viable

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EYE PROTECTION; LEARNING TO RANK; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS; TENSORS;

DIFFUSION PARAMETERS; DIRECTIONAL DIFFUSIVITY; FIXED; IDENTICAL CONDITIONS; MULTI-COMPARTMENT; MULTI-COMPARTMENT MODELS; PHYSIOLOGICAL TEMPERATURE; VIABLE;

TISSUE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPARTMENT MODEL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OPTIC NERVE; RAT; TEMPERATURE; VALIDATION STUDY; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTIFACT; EVALUATION STUDY; HISTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; OPTIC NERVE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TISSUE EMBEDDING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84920157046     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25012     Document Type: Article

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