Visualizing vertebrate embryos with episcopic 3D imaging techniques

TheScientificWorldJournal

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 1423-1437

  Geyer, Stefan H ^a   Mohun, Timothy J ^b   Weninger, Wolfgang J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D modeling; Development; Embryo; Episcopic microscopy; Imaging

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

BLEACHING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPISCOPIC THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING TECHNIQUE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROMAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL PROJECTION TOMOGRAPHY; SHORT SURVEY; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 77449118783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2009.154     Document Type: Short Survey

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