This
is the official L-Neuron Web Page
L-Neuron is one of the scientific projects
of the Computational Neuroanatomy Group at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced
Study. We expect to release a first version of L-Neuron in the year 2000,
for both DOS/Windows and Unix environments. We will post on this page the
software, the manual, a library of the virtual neurons, their morphological
analysis, and any news regarding L-Neuron. Until the date of the first release,
this is to be considered a temporary page.
Both L-Measure and L-Neuron are now released!
If you want to learn more about the L-Neuron project, see the power-point presentation (click here). If you want to learn more about the Computational Neuroanatomy Group, please click here. If you wish to contact the L-Neuron Principal Investigator, please email Giorgio Ascoli at ascoli@gmu.edu
The L-Neuron Project is supported by the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
and by Human
Brain Project/Neuroinformatics research grant R01-NS39600-01 (Generation
and description of dendritic morphology) awarded in 1999 to Giorgio Ascoli
and funded jointly by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and
Stroke and the National Institute of Mental Health (National Institutes of
Health).
These motoneurons were simulated by L-Neuron using the algorithms by Hillman
(purple, left), Tamori (blue, center), and Burke (green, right). In Hillman’s
models, diameters are calculated with Rall’s power rule, while angles are
measured empirically. In Tamori’s model, both diameters and angles are calculated.
In Burke’s model, both diameters and angles are measured empirically.
A prototype of the user-friendly interface for L-Neuron (windows version,
under development).
Giorgio Ascoli sitting in front of an L-Neuron screen view on a Pentium-class
computer running Windows 95. Credit: George Mason University (photograph by
Tom LeGro).
