Assessment of morphometry of pulmonary acini in mouse lungs by nondestructive imaging using multiscale microcomputed tomography

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 42, 2012, Pages 17105-17110

  Vasilescu, Dragoş M ^a,b   Gao, Zhiyun ^a,c   Saha, Punam K ^a,c   Yin, Leilei ^d   Wang, Ge ^e   Haefeli Bleuer, Beatrice ^f   Ochs, Matthias ^g   Weibel, Ewald R ^f   Hoffman, Eric A ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^g HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^h IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG STRUCTURE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ACINI; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEREOLOGY;

ACINAR CELLS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BRONCHIOLES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84867635176     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1215112109     Document Type: Article

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