Mosaics, Tiling, and Coverage by Retinal Neurons

The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 439-456

  Reese, B E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Coverage factor; Cross correlation; Delaunay segment; Dendritic overlap; Density recovery profile; Effective radius; Exclusion zone; Mosaic; Nearest neighbor distance; Packing; Regularity; Tiling; Voronoi domain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882561596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012370880-9.00278-4     Document Type: Chapter

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