L-Measure: A web-accessible tool for the analysis, comparison and search of digital reconstructions of neuronal morphologies

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 866-876

  Scorcioni, Ruggero ^a   Polavaram, Sridevi ^a   Ascoli, Giorgio A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; INTERNET; NEURONS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 43149098519     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.51     Document Type: Article

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