Three-dimensional modeling of renal glomerular capillary networks

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 93-101

  Kaczmarek, Elzbieta ^a,b   Becker Jr , Robert L ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

capillaries; capillary length; capillary networks; computer assisted; graph theory; image analysis; kidney glomerulus; three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; GLOMERULUS CAPILLARY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RATS; RENAL CIRCULATION;

GLOMERULUS;

EID: 0030960863     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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