Estimating neuronal connectivity from axonal and dendritic density fields

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  van Pelt, Jaap ^a   van Ooyen, Arjen ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D line crossing; Density fields; Intersections of cubes; Neuronal morphology; Random lines; Synaptic connectivity

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FIELDS; LINE CROSSINGS; NEURONAL MORPHOLOGY; RANDOM LINES; SYNAPTIC CONNECTIVITY;

ESTIMATION; MORPHOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

NEURONS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AXONAL DENSITY FIELD; CELL CONTACT; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DENDRITIC DENSITY FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; PROBABILITY; RAT; SYNAPSE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84888399731     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00160     Document Type: Article

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