Digitally quantifying cerebral hemorrhage using Photoshop® and Image J

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 240-243

  Tang, Xian Nan ^a,b   Berman, Ari Ethan ^a   Swanson, Raymond Alan ^a   Yenari s, Midori Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral hemorrhage; Digital quantification; Hemoglobin assay; Image J; Photoshop ; Spectrometry

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; MALE; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RAT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN LEVEL; DISEASE MODEL; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEMOGLOBINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOFTWARE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 77954218333     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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