Quantitating the subtleties of microglial morphology with fractal analysis

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JANUARY 2013, 2013, Pages 1-34

  Karperien, Audrey ^a   Ahammer, Helmut ^b   Jelinek, Herbert F ^a,c  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological; Box counting; Cell Shape; Computer assisted; Fractals; Image Interpretation; Lacunarity; Microglia; Models; Multifractal Analysis

Indexed keywords

AGE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRACKING; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER MODEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROGLIA; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84872903768     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2013.00003     Document Type: Review

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