An Online Digital-Computer System for the Semiautomatic Analysis of Golgi-Impregnated Neurons

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-20, Issue 4, 1973, Pages 233-247

  Wann, Donald F ^a   Dierker, Michael L ^a   Woolsey, Thomas A ^b   Cowan, W Maxwell ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLGI-IMPREGNATED NEURONS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIGITAL COMPUTER; GOLGI STAIN; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; GOLGI COMPLEX; MATHEMATICS; ONLINE SYSTEM;

COMPUTERS; GOLGI APPARATUS; MATHEMATICS; NEURONS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0015640129     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1973.324187     Document Type: Article

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