Multiscale imaging and registration-driven model for pulmonary acinar mechanics in the mouse

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 971-978

  Kumar, Haribalan ^a,b   Vasilescu, Dragoş M ^c,d   Yin, Youbing ^a   Hoffman, Eric A ^d   Tawhai, Merryn H ^e   Lin, Ching Long ^a,b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Acinus; High resolution; Image registration; Microcomputed tomography; Mouse lung

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; C57BL MOUSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84878581152     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01136.2012     Document Type: Article

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