Advanced use of 3-D methods for counting neurons [3]

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 377-378

  Schmitz, Christoph ^a   Korr, Hubert ^a   Perl, Daniel P ^b   Hof, Patrick R ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN; RESIN;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DEVICE; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0035386270     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-2236(00)01834-8     Document Type: Letter

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