Axons in cat visual cortex ere topologically self-similar

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 152-165

  Binzegger, Tom ^a,b   Douglas, Rodney J ^a   Martin, Kevan A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Cell types; Dendrogram; Fractal analysis; Galton Watson branching process; Horton Strahler method

Indexed keywords

HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GALTON WATSON PROCESS MODEL; HORTON STRAHLER ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; CELL SHAPE; FRACTALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 12144252048     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh118     Document Type: Article

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