Algorithmically generated rodent hepatic vascular trees in arbitrary detail

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 365, Issue , 2015, Pages 289-300

  Schwen, Lars Ole ^a   Wei, Weiwei ^b   Gremse, Felix ^c   Ehling, Josef ^c   Wang, Lei ^a   Dahmen, Uta ^b   Preusser, Tobias ^a,d  

^a FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constrained constructive optimization; Hepatic portal vein; Hepatic vein

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BLOOD; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT; TREE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TESTING REFINEMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINED CONSTRUCTIVE OPTIMIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER BLOOD VESSEL; LIVER VEIN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PORTAL VEIN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RAT; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; LIVER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

RODENTIA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS;

EID: 84910604567     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.10.026     Document Type: Article

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