Measures for quantifying dendritic arborizations

Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 397-414

  Uylings, Harry B M ^a,b   Van Pelt, Jaap ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; DENDRITE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; DENDRITES; FRACTALS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0041971308     PISSN: 0954898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0954-898X_13_3_309     Document Type: Article

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