Automated confocal laser scanning microscopy and semiautomated image processing for analysis of biofilms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4115-4127

  Kuehn, Martin ^a   Hausner, Martina ^a   Bungartz, Hans Joachim ^a   Wagner, Michael ^a   Wilderer, Peter A ^a   Wuertz, Stefan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOFILM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0031791296     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4115-4127.1998     Document Type: Article

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