In vivo DTI tractography of the rat brain: An atlas of the main tracts in Paxinos space with histological comparison

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 296-303

  Figini, Matteo ^a,b   Zucca, Ileana ^a   Aquino, Domenico ^a   Pennacchio, Paolo ^a   Nava, Simone ^a   Di Marzio, Alessandro ^b   Preti, Maria Giulia ^b,c   Baselli, Guseppe ^b   Spreafico, Roberto ^a   Frassoni, Carolina ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

Author keywords

DTI; Histology; MRI; Rat brain; Tractographic atlas

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXTERNAL CAPSULE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; PRE-CLINICAL IMAGING DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURONS; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84924863089     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2014.11.001     Document Type: Article

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