High-throughput film-densitometry: An efficient approach to generate large data sets

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-29

  Typke, Dieter ^a   Nordmeyer, Robert A ^b   Jones, Arthur ^b   Lee, Juyoung ^a   Avila Sakar, Agustin ^b   Downing, Kenneth H ^a   Glaeser, Robert M ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Film densitometer; Film handling robot; Geometric distortions; Modulation transfer function; MTF; Nikon Super Coolscan 8000 ED; Signal to noise ratio; Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CAMERA; DENSITOMETRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; FILM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STANDARD;

AUTOMATION; DENSITOMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTOGRAPHY; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 11144226412     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2004.09.003     Document Type: Article

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