Multiscale exploration of mouse brain microstructures using the knife-edge scanning microscope brain atlas

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chung, Ji Ryang ^a   Sung, Chul ^a   Mayerich, David ^b   Kwon, Jaerock ^c   Miller, Daniel E ^a   Huffman, Todd ^d   Keyser, John ^a   Abbott, Louise C ^e   Choe, Yoonsuck ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c KETTERING UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ZS Pharma   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectomics; Golgi; Knife edge scanning microscopy; Mouse brain; Multiscale; Web based brain atlas

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNIFE-EDGE SCANNING MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84993965577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2011.00029     Document Type: Article

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