Multimodal imaging of human cerebellum-merging X-ray phase microtomography, magnetic resonance microscopy and histology

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Schulz, Georg ^a   Waschkies, Conny ^b   Pfeiffer, Franz ^c   Zanette, Irene ^c,d   Weitkamp, Timm ^e   David, Christian ^f   Müller, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^e SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

^f PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; SYNCHROTRON;

CEREBELLUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPY; SYNCHROTRONS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84869183062     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00826     Document Type: Article

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