TrakEM2 software for neural circuit reconstruction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Cardona, Albert ^a   Saalfeld, Stephan ^b   Schindelin, Johannes ^b   Arganda Carreras, Ignacio ^c   Preibisch, Stephan ^b   Longair, Mark ^a   Tomancak, Pavel ^b   Hartenstein, Volker ^d   Douglas, Rodney J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN TISSUE; CAT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SYNAPSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONS; SOFTWARE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84862556352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038011     Document Type: Article

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