Improving sterological estimates for the volume of structures identified in three-dimensional arrays of spatial data

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 111-118

  Barta, Patrick E ^a   Dhingra, Lara ^a   Royall, Richard ^b   Schwartz, Eric ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental design; Stereology; Systematic random sampling; Volume estimation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STEREOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; AGED; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; NEUROLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA DISPLAY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NEUROLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030611820     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(97)00049-6     Document Type: Article

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