Toward a workbench for rodent brain image data: Systems architecture and design

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-57

  Moene, Ivar A ^a   Subramaniam, Shankar ^a,b   Darin, Dmitri ^a   Leergaard, Trygve B ^a   Bjaalie, Jan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain atlasing; Cerebro cerebellar system; Neural tracing; Neuroinformatics; Relational database; Rodent workbench

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CEREBELLUM; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; RODENTIA; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 34247122666     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/NI:5:1:35     Document Type: Article

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