Detecting diffuse axonal injury in rat brainstems by diffusion tensor imaging and AQP4 expression

Issue title: Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology – Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, 18–21 August 2015, Shanghai, China

Guest editors: Feng Liu, Dong-Hoon Lee, Ricardo Lagoa and Sandeep Kumar

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Zheng, Wenbin^{a; *} | Ma, Chunlin^b | Kong, Lingmei^a | Chen, Xiran^a | Fan, Wenyao^a

Affiliations: [a] Departments of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Medical College of Shantou University, Shantou, China | [b] Department of Radiology, Kiang Wu Hospital, Macao

Correspondence: [*] Address for correspondence: Wenbin Zheng, Departments of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Medical College of Shantou University, Shantou, China. Tel.: 86075488915717; Fax: 86075488993282; E-mail: [email protected].

Keywords: Diffusion axonal injury, brain edema, AQP4, diffusion tensor imaging, apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), fractional anisotropy (FA)

DOI: 10.3233/BME-151413

Journal: Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering, vol. 26, no. s1, pp. S1169-S1175, 2015