Quantitative analysis of disseminated tumor cells in the bone marrow by automated fluorescence image analysis

Communications in Clinical Cytometry

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 357-362

  Méhes, Gábor ^a   Lörch, Thomas ^b   Ambros, Peter F ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Austria)

^b MetaSystems GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic; FISH; Fluorescence; Immunology; Microscopy; Quantification; Rare event detection

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BONE MARROW; CELL COUNT; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEUROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TUMOR CELL;

AUTOMATION; BONE MARROW CELLS; BONE MARROW NEOPLASMS; CELL COUNT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GANGLIOSIDES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEUROBLASTOMA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0034671455     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0320(20001215)42:6<357::AID-CYTO1002>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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