Micro-computed tomography-based phenotypic approaches in embryology: Procedural artifacts on assessments of embryonic craniofacial growth and development

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Schmidt, Eric J ^a   Parsons, Trish E ^a   Jamniczky, Heather A ^a   Gitelman, Julian ^b   Trpkov, Cvett ^a   Boughner, Julia C ^a   Logan, C Cairine ^a   Sensen, Christoph W ^c   Hallgrímsson, Benedikt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRANIA; MUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; RADIOGRAPHY; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77949447906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-10-18     Document Type: Article

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