3D imaging, registration, and analysis of the early mouse embryonic vasculature

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 242, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 527-538

  Anderson, Gregory A ^a,b   Wong, Michael D ^a,b   Yang, Jian ^b   Henkelman, R Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Embryo staining; Heart development; Optical projection tomography; Vascular biology

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HISTOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL PROJECTION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 84876467060     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.23947     Document Type: Article

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