Automatic alignment of transmission electron microscope tilt series without fiducial markers

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 201-213

  Brandt, Sami ^a   Heikkonen, Jukka ^a   Engelhardt, Peter ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Automatic alignment; Correspondence problem; Electron tomography; Epipolar geometry

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MARKER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0035783045     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.2001.4443     Document Type: Article

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