Evaluation of diffusion kurtosis imaging in ex vivo hypomyelinated mouse brains

NeuroImage

Volumn 124, Issue , 2016, Pages 612-626

  Kelm, Nathaniel D ^a,b   West, Kathryn L ^a,b   Carson, Robert P ^c   Gochberg, Daniel F ^b,c   Ess, Kevin C ^c   Does, Mark D ^a,b,c,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Kurtosis; MRI; Myelin; Quantitative histology; White matter

Indexed keywords

MYELIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; RICTOR PROTEIN, MOUSE; TUBERIN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMYELINATION; DIFFUSION KURTOSIS IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EX VIVO STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HYPOMYELINATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; AXON; BRAIN; DIFFUSION; DISEASE MODEL; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; MYELIN SHEATH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MYELIN SHEATH; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84942693247     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.028     Document Type: Article

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