Versatile morphometric analysis and visualization of the three-dimensional structure of neurons

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 393-403

  Aguiar, Paulo ^a,b   Sousa, Mafalda ^b,c   Szucs, Peter ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

3D visualization; Mesh calculation; Morphometric analysis; Neuromorphology; Neuronal reconstruction data

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DENDRITES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEURONS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84886291005     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12021-013-9188-z     Document Type: Article

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