On optimizing high-pressure freezing: From heat transfer theory to a new microbiopsy device

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 236-247

  Shimoni, K ^a   Muller M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Biopsy technology; Cooling rate; Cryo immobilization; Cutting; Electron microscopy; Heat transfer; High pressure freezing

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; CUTTING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; FREEZING; GOLD; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES; TISSUE;

'CURRENT; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; BIOPSY TECHNOLOGY; COOLING RATES; CRYO- IMMOBILIZATION; HEAT TRANSFER THEORY; HIGH-PRESSURE FREEZING; IMMOBILISATION; MICROBIOPSY; PREPARATION METHOD;

NEEDLES;

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEVICE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREEZING; HEAT TRANSFER; IMMOBILIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; THICKNESS;

EID: 0344197613     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1998.00389.x     Document Type: Article

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