Modeling cat retinal beta-cell arrays

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-39

  Zhan, Xue J ^a,b   Troy, John B ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delaunay triangulation; Neural image; Simulation; Spatial correlogram; Visual system; Voronoi tessellation; X cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL TYPE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0034122514     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800171032     Document Type: Article

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