Advanced CUBIC protocols for whole-brain and whole-body clearing and imaging

Nature Protocols

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1709-1727

  Susaki, Etsuo A ^a,b,c   Tainaka, Kazuki ^a,b,c   Perrin, Dimitri ^d   Yukinaga, Hiroko ^c   Kuno, Akihiro ^a,b,e,f   Ueda, Hiroki R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLEAR UNOBSTRUCTED BRAIN BODY IMAGING COCKTAILS AND COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; ANIMAL; BRAIN; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

EID: 84944397824     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2015.085     Document Type: Article

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