Practical nerve morphometry

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 333-341

  Urso Baiarda, Fulvio ^a   Grobbelaar, Adriaan O ^a  

^a MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nerve morphometry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; AXONS; CALIBRATION; CELL COUNT; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RABBITS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33747374603     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.02.014     Document Type: Article

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