Morphometric and volumetric analysis of the middle cerebral artery in human fetuses

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 129-137

  Gielecki, Jerzy ^a   Zurada, Anna ^a   Kozlłowska, Hanna ^b   Nowak, Dariusz ^c   Loukas, Marios ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d ST GEORGE S UNIVERSITY   (Grenada)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Circle of Willis; Development; Digital image analysis; Fetal brain; Middle cerebral artery

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 65549163425     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: 00651400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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