Quantitative 3-dimensional imaging of murine neointimal and atherosclerotic lesions by optical projection tomography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Kirkby, Nicholas S ^a   Low, Lucinda ^a   Seckl, Jonathan R ^a   Walker, Brian R ^a   Webb, David J ^a   Hadoke, Patrick W F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOUSE; NEOINTIMA; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL PROJECTION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOLUMETRY; ANIMAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; C57BL MOUSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; GENETICS; INJURY; INTIMA; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY;

MURINAE; MUS;

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FEMORAL ARTERY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEOINTIMA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL; TUNICA INTIMA; VASCULAR SYSTEM INJURIES;

EID: 79951878921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016906     Document Type: Article

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