An analytical model for elucidating tendon tissue structure and biomechanical function from in vivo cellular confocal microscopy images

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-119

  Snedeker, J G ^a,b,e   Pelled, G ^c   Zilberman, Y ^c   Ben Arav, A ^c   Huber, E ^b   Muller R ^b   Gazit, D ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Fibered confocal microscopy; Functional imaging; Tendon

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL MOTION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, STRUCTURAL;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 67651102589     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000189211     Document Type: Article

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