Near real time confocal microscopy of amelanotic tissue: Dynamics of aceto-whitening enable nuclear segmentation

Optics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 40-48

  Collier, Tom ^a   Shen, Peggy ^a   De Pradier, Benoit ^a   Sung, Kung Bin ^a   Richards Kortum, Rebecca ^a   Malpica, Anais ^b   Folien, Michele ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BACKSCATTERING; CELLS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TISSUE; TUMORS;

CERVICAL SPECIMENS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR SEGMENTATION;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 0005594109     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.6.000040     Document Type: Article

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