Three-dimensional image quantification as a new morphometry method for tissue engineering

Tissue Engineering - Part C: Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 507-516

  Rytlewski, Julie A ^a   Geuss, Laura R ^a   Anyaeji, Chinedu I ^a   Lewis, Evan W ^a   Suggs, Laura J ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MATLAB; STEM CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

3-D SLICER; 3D MODELS; ANGIOGENESIS; ANISOTROPIC GROWTH; AORTIC RINGS; CELLULAR PHENOTYPES; HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; IN-VITRO; MICROCARRIER BEADS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; NETWORK SEGMENT; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; OPEN-SOURCE; QUALITATIVE OBSERVATIONS; QUANTIFICATION METHODS; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; VASCULAR NETWORK;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RATTUS;

COLLAGEN; FIBRIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; AORTA; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; FISCHER 344 RAT; GEL; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; AORTA; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; COLLAGEN; FIBRIN; GELS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84862901012     PISSN: 19373384     EISSN: 19373392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2011.0417     Document Type: Article

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