ACeV	anterior cerebral vein
BA	basal artery
CNR	contrast-to-noise ratio
CoV	coefficient of variance
DA	dorsal aorta
DLAV	dorsal longitudinal vein
dpf	days post fertilization
GF	general filtering
hpf	hours post fertilization
H	Hours
ISV	intersomitic vessel
LP	laser power
LSFM	light sheet fluorescence microscopy
min	Minutes
MIP	Maximum intensity projection
MMCtA	middle mesencephalic central artery
PCeV	posterior cerebral vein
PCS	posterior communicating segment
PMBC	primordial midbrain channel
PrA	prosencephalic artery
ROI	region of interest
s	Seconds
SRM	statistical region merging
TF	tubular filtering