Stereological assessment of mouse lung parenchyma via nondestructive, multiscale micro-CT imaging validated by light microscopic histology

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 716-724

  Vasilescu, Dragoş M ^a,b   Klinge, Christine ^c   Knudsen, Lars ^c   Yin, Leilei ^e   Wang, Ge ^f   Weibel, Ewald R ^d   Ochs, Matthias ^c   Hoffman, Eric A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixed lung; High resolution imaging; Lung morphometry; Mouse; Quantitative CT

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; LUNG; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STAINING; TISSUE FIXATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE FIXATION; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84878551114     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00855.2012     Document Type: Article

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