Quantitative Ex-vivo micro-computed tomographic imaging of blood vessels and necrotic regions within tumors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Downey, Charlene M ^a,c   Singla, Arvind K ^a,c   Villemaire, Michelle L ^a,c   Buie, Helen R ^b,c   Boyd, Steven K ^b,c   Jirik, Frank R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; VADIMEZAN;

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CANCER CELL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EX VIVO STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MAXIMAL SPHERES ANALYSIS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE PERFUSION; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION PROCESS; VESSEL CONNECTIVITY DENSITY; VESSEL DENSITY; VESSEL NUMBER; VESSEL SEPARATION; VESSEL SURFACE AREA; VESSEL THICKNESS; VESSEL VOLUME;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; NECROSIS; NEOPLASMS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864356885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041685     Document Type: Article

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