Continuously tracing brain-wide long-distance axonal projections in mice at a one-micron voxel resolution

NeuroImage

Volumn 74, Issue , 2013, Pages 87-98

  Gong, Hui ^a,b   Zeng, Shaoqun ^a,b   Yan, Cheng ^a   Lv, Xiaohua ^a   Yang, Zhongqin ^a   Xu, Tonghui ^a,b   Feng, Zhao ^a   Ding, Wenxiang ^b   Qi, Xiaoli ^a   Li, Anan ^a,b   Wu, Jingpeng ^a   Luo, Qingming ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Brain wide long distance axonal projection; Fluorescence imaging; Micro optical sectioning tomography; Mouse brain

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; EMBEDDING; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROOPTICAL SECTIONING TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NEURITE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 84874990870     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.02.005     Document Type: Article

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