Large-scale automated histology in the pursuit of Connectomes

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 45, 2011, Pages 16125-16138

  Kleinfeld, David ^a,b   Bharioke, Arjun ^c   Blinder, Pablo ^a   Bock, Davi D ^c   Briggman, Kevin L ^d   Chklovskii, Dmitri B ^c   Denk, Winfried ^c,d   Helmstaedter, Moritz ^d   Kaufhold, John P ^e   Lee, Wei Chung Allen ^f   Meyer, Hanno S ^g   Micheva, Kristina D ^h   Oberlaender, Marcel ^g   Prohaska, Steffen ^g,i   Reid, R Clay ^f   Smith, Stephen J ^h   Takemura, Shinya ^c   Tsai, Philbert S ^a   Sakmann, Bert ^g,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEUROBIOLOGY SECTION   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g MAX PLANCK FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (United States)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^j MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARRAY TOMOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONNECTOME; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RETINA; SYNAPSES;

EID: 80755143593     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4077-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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