A customizable 3-dimensional digital atlas of the canary brain in multiple modalities

NeuroImage

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 352-361

  Vellema, Michiel ^a,b   Verschueren, Jacob ^a   Van Meir, Vincent ^a,b   Van der Linden, Annemie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

MRI; Serinus canaria; Songbird; Stereotactic coordinates

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN REGION; CANARY; COGNITION; DIGITAL ATLAS; DIGITAL IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANATOMY, ARTISTIC; ANIMALS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; BRAIN; CANARIES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 79958706098     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.04.033     Document Type: Article

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