Construction of a Low Cost Custom 2-D Bar Code Reader for Tube Racks

Journal of Laboratory Automation

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 96-102

  Neil, William ^a   Michalczyk, Stephen ^a   Russo, Mark ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

2 D bar code; bar code reader; DataMatrix

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; COST CONTROL; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; TUBE;

EID: 0036936863     PISSN: 22110682     EISSN: 15402452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1535-5535-04-00228-X     Document Type: Article

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