An automated approach for three-dimensional quantification of fibrillar structures in optically cleared soft biological tissues

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 10, Issue 80, 2013, Pages

  Schriefl, Andreas J ^a   Wolinski, Heimo ^b   Regitnig, Peter ^c   Kohlwein, Sepp D ^b   Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^a,d  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Artery; Collagen; Constitutive modelling; Fibre orientation; Optical clearing; Second harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; FIBERS; HARMONIC GENERATION; TISSUE;

AORTIC WALLS; ARTERY; AUTOMATED APPROACH; COLLAGEN FIBRES; DISTRIBUTION FITTING; FIBRE ORIENTATION; FIBRILLAR STRUCTURES; HUMAN ABDOMINAL AORTA; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MULTI-PURPOSE; OPTICAL CLEARING; ORIENTATIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; RELATIVE AMPLITUDE; SAMPLE PREPARATION METHODS; SOFT BIOLOGICAL TISSUE; STRESS AND STRAIN; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; TISSUE SAMPLES; TISSUE TYPES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANISOTROPY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ELASTIC FIBER; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE PREPARATION; VASCULAR TISSUE; AGED; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 84879185762     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0760     Document Type: Article

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