A program for analyzing the morphological organization of tessellated cellular mosaics

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 409-418

  Dilts, David M ^a   Doughty, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analysis of tessellated cellular mosaics; Sequential data analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORNEA; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030249231     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0010-4825(96)00016-9     Document Type: Article

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