Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 27, Issue 9 , Pages 1236-1241 , November 2009

In vivo diffusion tensor imaging of thoracic and cervical rat spinal cord at 7 T

Received 27 December 2008 ,Revised 17 February 2009 ,Accepted 6 May 2009.

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☆ Sponsor: NIH/NINDS.

☆☆ Grant number: R01 NS045624.

PII: S0730-725X(09)00085-X

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.05.002

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 27, Issue 9 , Pages 1236-1241 , November 2009

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