Neuroimaging assessment of memory‐related brain structures in a rat model of acute space‐like radiation

To investigate the acute effects on the central nervous system (CNS) of 56Fe radiation, a component of high‐energy charged particles (HZE) in space radiation, using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) noninvasively.

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