One of the most notable features in looking across fishes is their diversity of body shape and size. Extant actinopterygian fishes range in shape from nearly spheroidal in pufferfishes to extremely elongate in snipe eels with nearly every shape in-between. One extreme along the body-shape continuum is a highly elongate form, which has evolved multiple times independently in Actinopterygii. Thus...

Figure 2.1: The gray highlighted on this femur outline is the region used for histology. After embedding, sections were cut perpendicular to the long axis of the bone. Sections were cut starting at the midshaft……………………………………… 26 Figure 2.2: Femur cross section, where the grey lines represent the location of anatomical octants. Red boxes indicate location of images obtained from each octant for ...

— Left ventricular segmentation is essential for measuring left ventricular function indices. Segmentation of one or several images requires an initial guess of the contour. It is hypothesized here that creating an initial guess by first detecting anatomical markers, would lead to correct detection of the endocardium. The first step of the algorithm presented here includes automatic detection o...

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BACKGROUND The 3D structure of the atrioventricular conduction axis incorporating detailed cellular and molecular composition, especially that relating to gap-junctional proteins, is still unclear, impeding mechanistic understanding of cardiac rhythmic disorders. METHODS AND RESULTS A 3D model of the rabbit atrioventricular conduction axis was reconstructed by combining histological and immun...

While advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) throughout the last decades have enabled the detailed anatomical and functional inspection of the human brain non-invasively, to date there is no consensus regarding the precise subdivision and topography of the areas forming the human auditory cortex. Here, we propose a topography of the human auditory areas based on insights on the anatomical...

OBJECTIVES To report the repeatability and reproducibility of four different anatomical proximal femoral axis (a-PFA) methods for measuring anatomical lateral distal femoral angle (a-LDFA), and to compare a-LDFA values produced by each method at three different femoral elevation angles. METHODS Digital radiographs were obtained of seven dry canine femora at 0°, 12.5° and 25° elevations. Using...