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Collection of Frozen Rodent Brain Regions for Downstream Analyses
Published on: April 23, 2020
1H Spectroscopic Imaging of the Rodent Brain
Rui V Simões1,2, Emma Muñoz-Moreno3, Raúl Tudela4
1Fetal i+D Fetal Medicine Research Center, BCNatal-Barcelona Center for Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine (Hospital Clínic and Hospital Sant Joan de Déu), Institut Clínic de Ginecologia, Obstetricia i Neonatologia, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universitat de Barcelona, and Centre for Biomedical Research on Rare Diseases (CIBER-ER), Barcelona, Spain. portasferre@clinic.ub.es.
Abstract:
Proton MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) can provide a variety of "molecular images" from animal models of human disease, which are useful for different research purposes. This chapter describes a protocol for in vivo acquisition and analysis of MRSI data from the rodent brain.
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