3D Reconstruction and Standardization of the Rat Vibrissal Cortex for Precise Registration of Single Neuron Morphology

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Egger, Robert ^a,d   Narayanan, Rajeevan T ^b   Helmstaedter, Moritz ^c   de Kock, Christiaan P J ^b   Oberlaender, Marcel ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; NEURONS; REPAIR; STANDARDIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

3D MODELS; 3D RECONSTRUCTION; 3D-MODELING; ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS; CORTEXES; NEURON MORPHOLOGIES; NEURON RECONSTRUCTION; PRECISE REGISTRATION; SINGLE NEURON; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) STRUCTURES;

RATS;

ACCURACY; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL STRUCTURE; DENDRITE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PIA MATER; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STANDARDIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIBRISSAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84872037952     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002837     Document Type: Article

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