High contrast and homogeneous staining of paraffin sections of whole human brains for three dimensional ultrahigh resolution image analysis

Biotechnic and Histochemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 44-51

  Schmitt, Oliver ^a   Eggers, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

CLSM; Gallocyanin chromalum; Human brain; Image analysis; Light microscopy; Paraffin embedding; Sections; Three dimensional imaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; GALLOCYANIN; PARAFFIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PH; REPRODUCIBILITY; STAINING; TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031971208     PISSN: 10520295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10520299809140505     Document Type: Article

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