CoCoMac 2.0 and the future of tract-tracing databases

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Bakker, Rembrandt ^a,b,c   Wachtler, Thomas ^c   Diesmann, Markus ^b,d,e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL TRACT TRACER;

ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; DATA BASE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SERIAL BLOCK FACE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84886749851     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2012.00030     Document Type: Article

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