Stereo: A program on a PC-windows 95 platform for recording and evaluating quantitative stereologic investigations of multistage hepatocarcinogenesis in rodents

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-63

  Xu, Yi Hua ^a   Dragan, Yvonne P ^a   Campbell, Harold A ^a   Pitot, Henry C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Altered hepatic foci; Multistage chemical carcinogenesis; Quantitative stereology; Rat liver; Tumor progression; Tumor promotion

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CARCINOGENS; DISEASES; HEALTH RISKS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; ONCOLOGY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

ALTERED HEPATIC FOCI; MULTISTAGE CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; QUANTITATIVE STEREOLOGY; RAT LIVER; TUMOR PROGRESSION; TUMOR PROMOTION; WINDOWS 95;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

CARCINOGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; COMPACT DISK; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER MEMORY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; MICROCOMPUTER; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEREOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICROCOMPUTERS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RATS; RODENTIA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0032055250     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(98)00010-8     Document Type: Article

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