Diffraction contrast imaging of extracellular matrix components using zero-loss filtering

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 85-92

  Shillito, Bruce ^a   Lechaire, Jean Pierre ^a   Childress, Jim ^b   Gaill, Françoise ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN;

ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HYDRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE FIBRIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WORM INFECTION;

EID: 0031259008     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1997.3909     Document Type: Article

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