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The introduction of advanced technology and a much more flexible hardware concept now means that image analysis systems can be used efficiently in diverse fields of scientific research and industrial inspection work. Thus, digital image processing has furnished mankind with some highly spectacular products: enhanced satellite photographs of the planets (including the earth), colourful representations of more distant celestial objects, aerial photography analysis, automatic material testing, industrial quality control and medical diagnosis such as images assembled from X-ray data to show a cross section of the human body (see e.g. IEEE, 1983). Technological advances have increased both the sensitivity, resolution and speed of the detecting systems as well as the computing power of the host systems. In the present chapter some studies using the Zeiss/Kontron IBAS interactive image analyser in conjunction with typical problems of neurobiology will be presented. The communication will review some preliminary data obtained regarding the distribution of transmitter identified nerve cells in a brain nucleus as well as morphometric analysis both at the light and electron microscopic level.
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Johansson, O., Hallman, H. (1985). Image Analysis of Transmitter Identified Neurons Using the IBAS System. In: Agnati, L.F., Fuxe, K. (eds) Quantitative Neuroanatomy in Transmitter Research. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series, vol 42. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2139-2_16
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