Telomere length measurements using digital fluorescence microscopy

Cytometry

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 267-278

  Poon, Steven S S ^a,b   Martens, Uwe M ^a,c   Ward, Rabab K ^b   Lansdorp, Peter M ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital image processing; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Integrated fluorescence intensity measurements; Karyotype; Metaphase chromosomes; Peptide nucleic acid probes; Quantitative image analysis; Telomere length; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CARBOCYANINES; DNA; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INDOLES; KARYOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PARTICLE SIZE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELOMERE;

EID: 0033178240     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19990801)36:4<267::AID-CYTO1>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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