Irregularity of airway branching in a mouse bronchial tree: A 3-D morphometric study

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 157-164

  Onuma, Kazuya ^a   Ebina, Masahito ^a   Takahashi, Tohru ^a,b   Nukiwa, Toshihiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Irregular airway branching; Irregular branch; Morphometry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLE; BRONCHUS; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG HILUS; LUNG INJURY; LUNG STRUCTURE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRONCHI; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

EID: 0034765836     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.194.157     Document Type: Article

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