Toward fully automated high-resolution electron tomography

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 181-189

  Fung, Jennifer C ^a   Liu, Weiping ^b   De Ruijter, W J ^b   Chen, Hans ^b   Abbey, Craig K ^b   Sedat, John W ^b   Agard, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030012313     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1996.0029     Document Type: Article

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