Pathology‐guided MR analysis of acute and chronic experimental allergic encephalomyelitis spinal cord lesions at 1.5T

To directly correlate spinal cord pathology of guinea pigs with experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) to the MRI data obtained at 1.5T.

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