Automatic section thickness determination using an absolute gradient focus function

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 248, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 245-259

  Elozory, D T ^a   Kramer, K A ^a   Chaudhuri, B ^a   Bonam, O P ^a   Goldgof, D B ^a   Hall, L O ^a   Mouton, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated stereology; Design based stereology; Focal depth; Thresholded absolute gradient; Z stack

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; TISSUE;

AUTOMATED STEREOLOGY; DESIGN-BASED STEREOLOGY; FOCAL DEPTH; FOCUS FUNCTION; OPTICAL PLANES; SECTION THICKNESS; STEREOLOGY; THICKNESS DETERMINATION; THRESHOLDED ABSOLUTE GRADIENT; Z-STACK;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STEREOLOGY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THICKNESS; TISSUE SECTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 84869080661     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2012.03669.x     Document Type: Article

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