Determination of myosin filament positions and orientations in electron micrographs of muscle cross-sections

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5562, Issue , 2004, Pages 97-108

  Bodvarsson B ^a   Klim, S ^a   Mortensen, S ^a   Morkebjerg M ^a   Chen, J ^a   Maclaren, J R ^a   Yoon, C H ^a   Luther, P K ^b   Squire, J M ^b   Bainbridge Smith, A ^a   Bones, P J ^a   Millane, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disorder; Electron micrograph; Image analysis; Lattice; Morphology; Muscle; Myosin

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MUSCLE; PROTEINS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ACTIN FILAMENTS; DISORDER; ELECTRON MICROGRAPHS; MYOSIN; SEMIREGULAR LATTICE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 20144366566     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.562357     Document Type: Conference Paper

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