A new ImageJ plug-in "actogramJ" for chronobiological analyses

Journal of Biological Rhythms

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 464-467

  Schmid, Benjamin ^a,b   Helfrich Förster, Charlotte ^a   Yoshii, Taishi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 periodogram; actogram; chronobiological data; circadian rhythm; free software; ImageJ; Lomb Scargle periodogram

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHRONOBIOLOGY PHENOMENA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 80755188094     PISSN: 07487304     EISSN: 15524531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748730411414264     Document Type: Article

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