Counting contacts between neurons in 3D in confocal laser scanning images

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 296-308

  Wouterlood, Floris G ^a   Boekel, Amber J ^a   Kajiwara, Riichi ^b   Beliën, Jeroen A M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D object recognition; Abbe diffraction; Apposition; CA1; Colocalization; Connectivity; Hippocampus; Isodensity envelope; Multifluorescence; Neuronal network; Potential synapses; Threshold

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCHROME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS;

EID: 43449109174     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.03.014     Document Type: Article

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