Quantitative neuroanatomy of all Purkinje cells with light sheet microscopy and high-throughput image analysis

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 9, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Silvestri, Ludovico ^a,b   Paciscopi, Marco ^c   Soda, Paolo ^d   Biamonte, Filippo ^e   Iannello, Giulio ^d   Frasconi, Paolo ^b   Pavone, Francesco S ^a,b,c,f  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^f International Center of Computational Neurophotonics   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Cerebellum; Image analysis; Light sheet microscopy; Purkinje cells; Quantitative neuroanatomy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN MAPPING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CEREBELLUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; PURKINJE CELL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930507805     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2015.00068     Document Type: Article

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