Categories of Branched Structure Analyses in

NeurolucidaMorphometric data Part of the neuron

A Guide to Branched Structure Analyses in Neurolucida

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Neuron Summary ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●Segment ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●Segment Points ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●Each Tree ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●Tree Totals ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●Individual Tree ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●Terminal Distance ● ● ● ● ●Layer Length ● ● ● ● ●Nearest Termination ● ● ●Terminals ● ● ● ● ● ● ●Tree Intervals ● ● ● ●Individual Marker ● ● ● ● ● ●Marker Totals ● ● ● ● ● ● ●Spines ● ● ●Nodes ● ● ●Synapse tree ● ● ●Synapse details ● ● ● ●

* end or node** feret max, feret min, aspect ratio, compactness, convexity, form factor, roundness, solidity*** process is axon, dendrite, and/or apical dendrite**** end, center, or beginning

+ Synapse analyses are only available if you have the AutoSynapse module