A novel three-phase model of brain tissue microstructure

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Gevertz, Jana L ^a   Torquato, Salvatore ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; MICROSTRUCTURE; TISSUE;

BRAIN TISSUE; CELL-BE; CELL/B.E; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; PACKING PROBLEMS; RANDOM HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS; REALISTIC MODEL; THREE PHASE MODEL; TISSUE MICROSTRUCTURES; TWO-PHASE MODEL;

BRAIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN TISSUE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GEOMETRY; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; DIFFUSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 50949104334     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000152     Document Type: Article

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