Quantifying plasticity in vessel grouping - Added value from the image analysis tool ROXAS

IAWA Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 433-445

  von Arx, Georg ^a   Kueffer, Christoph ^b   Fonti, Patrick ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

automated image analysis; grouped vessels; hydraulic integration; Hydraulic pathways; solitary vessels; spatial vessel arrangement; spreading of embolism; vessel grouping index

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890054232     PISSN: 09281541     EISSN: 22941932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22941932-00000035     Document Type: Article

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