Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging in animal research

JC Chatham, SJ Blackband - IlAR Journal, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Blackband, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Director
of the … Blackband also gratefully acknowledges the support of the University of Florida Brain …

A three-dimensional digital atlas database of the adult C57BL/6J mouse brain by magnetic resonance microscopy

Y Ma, PR Hof, SC Grant, SJ Blackband, R Bennett… - Neuroscience, 2005 - Elsevier
A comprehensive three-dimensional digital atlas database of the C57BL/6J mouse brain
was developed based on magnetic resonance microscopy images acquired on a 17.6-T …

Resolution of complex tissue microarchitecture using the diffusion orientation transform (DOT)

E Özarslan, TM Shepherd, BC Vemuri, SJ Blackband… - NeuroImage, 2006 - Elsevier
This article describes an accurate and fast method for fiber orientation mapping using
multidirectional diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) data. This novel approach utilizes …

Aldehyde fixative solutions alter the water relaxation and diffusion properties of nervous tissue

…, PE Thelwall, GJ Stanisz, SJ Blackband - … in Medicine: An …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Chemically‐fixed nervous tissues are well‐suited for high‐resolution, time‐intensive MRI
acquisitions without motion artifacts, such as those required for brain atlas projects, but the …

Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of a single cell

JB Aguayo, SJ Blackband, J Schoeniger, MA Mattingly… - Nature, 1986 - nature.com
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging 1,2 is now an established tool in clinical
imaging and competes favourably with conventional X-ray computerized tomography (CT) …

Quantitation of proton NMR spectra of the human brain using tissue water as an internal concentration reference

PB Barker, BJ Soher, SJ Blackband… - NMR in …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
The use of cerebral water as an internal intensity standard for the quantitation of spatially
localized proton spectra of the human brain is investigated. The method is validated on …

Tumour volume determination from MR images by morphological segmentation

P Gibbs, DL Buckley, SJ Blackband… - Physics in Medicine & …, 1996 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate tumour volume measurement from MR images requires some form of objective
image segmentation, and therefore a certain degree of automation. Manual methods of …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo 3D digital atlas database of the adult C57BL/6J mouse brain by magnetic resonance microscopy

…, B Foerster, S Hamilton, SJ Blackband… - Frontiers in …, 2008 - frontiersin.org
In this study, a 3D digital atlas of the live mouse brain based on magnetic resonance microscopy
(MRM) is presented. C57BL/6J adult mouse brains were imaged in vivo on a 9.4 Tesla …

Postmortem interval alters the water relaxation and diffusion properties of rat nervous tissue—implications for MRI studies of human autopsy samples

…, GJ Stanisz, TH Mareci, AT Yachnis, SJ Blackband - Neuroimage, 2009 - Elsevier
High-resolution imaging of human autopsy tissues may improve our understanding of in vivo
MRI findings, but interpretation is complicated because samples are obtained by immersion …

Effects of temperature and aldehyde fixation on tissue water diffusion properties, studied in an erythrocyte ghost tissue model

…, GJ Stanisz, SJ Blackband - … in Medicine: An …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Ex vivo biological sample imaging can complement in vivo MRI studies. Since ex vivo studies
are typically performed at room temperature, and samples are frequently preserved by …