The keratocyte network of human cornea: A three-dimensional study using confocal laser scanning fluorescence microscopy

Cornea

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 185-193

  Hahnel, Christian ^a   Somodi, Susanne ^a   Weiss, Dieter G ^a   Guthoff, Rudolf F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; Confocal laser scanning fluorescence microscopy; Cornea; Keratocytes; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA OPACITY; ENUCLEATION; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CELL COUNT; CORNEAL STROMA; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0034101810     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-200003000-00012     Document Type: Article

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