A new method for reliable and efficient reconstruction of 3-dimensional images from autoradiographs of brain sections

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 77-86

  Hess, Andreas ^a   Lohmann, Klaudia ^a,b   Gundelfinger, Eckart D ^a   Scheich, Henning ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 Fluoro 2 deoxyglucose; Alignment; Auditory cortex; Autoradiography; Digital image processing; Gerbil; Three dimensional reconstructions

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; GERBIL; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GERBILLINAE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032192363     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(98)00102-2     Document Type: Article

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