A new episcopic method for rapid 3-D reconstruction: Applications in anatomy and embryology

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 341-348

  Weninger, Wolfgang J ^a   Meng, Stefan ^a   Streicher, Johannes ^a   Müller, Gerd B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Block surface staining; Development; Morphology; Three dimensional reconstruction; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAVERNOUS SINUS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; TEACHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANIMALS; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAVERNOUS SINUS; EMBRYOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICE; MICROTOMY; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING;

EID: 0031920065     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050144     Document Type: Article

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