A cross-platform public domain PC image-analysis program for the comet assay

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 534, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 15-20

  Końca, Krzysztof ^a   Lankoff, Anna ^b   Banasik, Anna ^b   Lisowska, Halina ^b   Kuszewski, Tomasz ^c   Góźdź, Stanisław ^c   Koza, Zbigniew ^a   Wojcik, Andrzej ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b JAN KOCHANOWSKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c Swietokrzyskie Centrum Onkologii Poland   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Computer image analysis; Single cell gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNET; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMET ASSAY; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNET; LYMPHOCYTES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0037427860     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(02)00251-6     Document Type: Article

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