μMRI-HREM pipeline for high-throughput, high-resolution phenotyping of murine embryos

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 132-137

  Pieles, Guido ^a   Geyer, Stefan H ^b   Szumska, Dorota ^a   Schneider, Jürgen ^a   Neubauer, Stefan ^a   Clarke, Kieran ^c   Dorfmeister, Karl ^b   Franklyn, Angela ^a   Brown, Steve D ^d   Bhattacharya, Shoumo ^a   Weninger, Wolfgang J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Imaging; Large scalephenotype analysis

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLEFT PALATE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; EMBRYOPATHY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HIGH RESOLUTION EPISCOPIC MICROSCOPY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MICRO-NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STAINING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MURINAE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHENOTYPE; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 34447128381     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2007.00746.x     Document Type: Article

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