Improved assessment of isolated islet tissue volume using digital image analysis

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 469-478

  Stegemann, Jan P ^a,b   O'Neil, John J ^a   Nicholson, Don T ^a   Mullon, Claudy J P ^a  

^a Circe Biomedical   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital image analysis; Islet quantitation; Islet transplantation; Porcine islets

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ANIMALS; DNA; EVALUATION STUDIES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0032444667     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-6897(98)00017-7     Document Type: Article

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