Progress in functional neuroanatomy: Precise automatic geometric reconstruction of neuronal morphology from confocal image stacks

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2331-2342

  Evers, J F ^a   Schmitt, S ^b   Sibila, M ^b   Duch, C ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MANDUCA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEUROANATOMY; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 15544387146     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00761.2004     Document Type: Article

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