A method for the automatic segmentation of autoradiographic image stacks and spatial normalization of functional cortical activity patterns

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-58

  Mohr, Johannes ^a   Hess, Andreas ^b,c   Scholz, Michael ^a   Obermayer, Klaus ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoradiography; Cortex; Functional; Image analysis; Rodent; Segmentation; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SLICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVALUATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 1242306272     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2003.10.015     Document Type: Article

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