A versatile clearing agent for multi-modal brain imaging

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Costantini, Irene ^a   Ghobril, Jean Pierre ^d   Di Giovanna, Antonino Paolo ^a   Allegra Mascaro, Anna Letizia ^a   Silvestri, Ludovico ^a   Müllenbroich, Marie Caroline ^a   Onofri, Leonardo ^a   Conti, Valerio ^f   Vanzi, Francesco ^a,c   Sacconi, Leonardo ^a,b   Guerrini, Renzo ^f   Markram, Henry ^d   Iannello, Giulio ^e   Pavone, Francesco Saverio ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NEUROIMAGING; PROCEDURES; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; NEUROIMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84929000076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09808     Document Type: Article

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