Use of an automated image processing program to quantify recombinant adenovirus particles

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-41

  Obenauer Kutner, Linda J ^a   Halperin, Rebecca ^a   Ihnat, Peter M ^a   Tully, Christopher P ^b   Bordens, Ronald W ^a   Grace, Michael J ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Media Cybernetics LP   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated image processing (AIP); Field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM); Quantification of viral particles; Recombinant adenovirus (rAd); Stability; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADENOVIRIDAE; AUTOMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ADENOVIRIDAE;

EID: 14744267866     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927605050038     Document Type: Article

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