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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci. 2012 Oct 17;32(42):14670–14684. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2018-12.2012

Table 1.

Climbing fiber tree (top) and branch (bottom) morphological properties.

Tree Level Metrics (N=68) Mean±SD (Range) CV
Height (µm) 155±35 (90–242) 0.23
Width (µm) 79±26 (56–164) 0.33
Depth (µm) 12±7.3 (4.5–50) 0.60
Number of Branches 328±138 (117–675) 0.42
Tree Length (µm) 2318±680 (1104–4149) 0.29
Tree Surface Area (µm2) 3737±1430 (1154–9263) 0.38
Tree Volume (µm3) 703±456 (124–2597) 0.65
Wiring Density (µm−2) 25±21 (3.1–103) 0.82
Fractal Dimension 1.23±0.06 (1.09–1.43) 0.048
Max Branch Order 37±11 (15–65) 0.31
Vertex Ratio 0.48±0.12 (0.29–1.04) 0.26
Caulescence 0.86±0.05 (0.59–0.94) 0.063

Branch Level Metrics (N
>10000)
Mean±SD (Range 2.5–
97.5%)
CV

Branch Path Length (µm) 7.1±7.6 (0.51–28) 1.1
Branch Path Tortuosity 0.19±0.17 (0–0.59) 0.88
Branching Angle (°) 87±42 (13–165) 0.48
Daughter Diameter Ratio 1.9±1.1 (1.0–4.8) 0.57
Daughter / Parent Diameter Ratio 0.70±0.42 (0.21–1.7) 0.60