An elegant technique for ex vivo imaging in experimental research-Optical coherence tomography (OCT)

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-27

  Tschernig, T ^a   Thrane, L ^b   Jorgensen T M ^b   Thommes, J ^c   Pabst, R ^d   Yelbuz, T M ^d  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ex vivo imaging; OCT

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EX VIVO STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HISTOGRAM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PNEUMONIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEUROIMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

MURINAE;

EID: 84873078914     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: 16180402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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