A novel algorithm to generate kymographs from dynamic axons for the quantitative analysis of axonal transport

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 230-240

  Chetta, Joshua ^a   Shah, Sameer B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal transport; Hough transform; Image registration; Kymograph; Neuron; Particle tracking

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; ELECTROKYMOGRAPHY; HOUGH TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE QUALITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; CELLS, CULTURED; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; KYMOGRAPHY; RATS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 79960201967     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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