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Unprocessed imagesrepresented as 2d maximum intensity projections

MicroComputed Tomography (μCT) Image Processingprogram and funciton design by andrew graveley. images provided by michael d. Hoffmana , chao Xieb, Xinping Zhangb, and danielle s.W. Benoit, of the University of rocehster.

processed imagesμCT images convolved by 3D Gaussian kernel and selectively

applied with graduated masking in MATLABTM

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