Three-dimensional strain fields in human brain resulting from formalin fixation

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-27

  Schulz, Georg ^a   Crooijmans, Hendrikus J A ^a   Germann, Marco ^a   Scheffler, Klaus ^b,c   Müller Gerbl, Magdalena ^d   Müller, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Affine registration; Deformation field; Formalin fixation; Human brain; Magnetic resonance imaging; Non rigid registration

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TISSUE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 80053561116     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.08.031     Document Type: Article

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