Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
470-05-106 ISMRM Abstract

Intra- and extra-axonal structural disorder in a rat model of mild traumatic brain injury using time-dependent Standard Model

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Ali Abdollahzadeh1, Hong Hsi Lee2, Omar Narvaez Delgado1, Alejandra Sierra Lopez1, Els Fieremans 3, Dmitry S Novikov3
1A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
2Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, United States of America
3Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, United States of America
Presenting Author: Els Fieremans

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