Quantitative microscopic analysis of myelinated nerve fibers

Neuroanatomy Research Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 207-260

  Prodanov, Dimiter ^a,b   Feirabend, Hans K P ^c   Marani, Enrico ^d  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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