This video illustrates a method, using a clinical 3 T scanner, for contrast-enhanced MR imaging of the naïve mouse visual projection and for repetitive and longitudinal in vivo studies of optic nerve degeneration associated with acute optic nerve crush injury and chronic optic nerve degeneration in knock-out mice (p50KO).
Fischer, S., Engelmann, C., Herrmann, K., Reichenbach, J. R., Witte, O. W., Weih, F., Kretz, A., Haenold, R. In vivo Imaging of Optic Nerve Fiber Integrity by Contrast-Enhanced MRI in Mice. J. Vis. Exp. (89), e51274, doi:10.3791/51274 (2014).