Three-dimensional modeling and quantitative analysis of gap junction distributions in cardiac tissue

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2683-2694

  Lackey, Daniel P ^a   Carruth, Eric D ^a   Lasher, Richard A ^a   Boenisch, Jan ^b   Sachse, Frank B ^a,b   Hitchcock, Robert W ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical image processing; Cardiac tissue; Confocal microscopy; Connexin 43; Tissue modeling

Indexed keywords

BIO-MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; CARDIAC TISSUES; CARDIOMYOCYTES; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART DISEASE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGHER ORDER; INTENSITY PROFILES; INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS; MYOCYTES; PRINCIPAL AXES; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; STATISTICAL IMAGES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; TISSUE MODELING; VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIUM; VISUAL INSPECTION;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; POLARIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONNEXIN 43;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS;

EID: 80755137072     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-011-0369-3     Document Type: Article

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