title: Advances in image processing for autoradiography.
abstract: The next generation of techniques for image processing in autoradiography will extend the range for what is already a broad band method for functional mapping. Among the new tools under development are techniques to correct for tritium quenching. With these, high resolution, accurate 2-deoxyglucose mapping will be feasible. Also being developed are automatic segmentation algorithms which will permit rapid surveys of a large number of structures in a large number of brains. Together with recent refinements in other aspects of image processing of autoradiograms, these tools will provide both better quantification accuracy and faster analysis speed.
authors.affiliation: Autoradiography Resource Division, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nissanov
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: McEachron
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001345:Autoradiography / Q000379:methods*; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D003847:Deoxyglucose / Q000378:metabolism; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D014316:Tritium
chemical_list: D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D014316:Tritium; D003847:Deoxyglucose