Focus-drift correction in time-lapse confocal imaging

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1048, Issue , 2005, Pages 321-330

  Kreft, Marko ^a,b   Stenovec, Matjaž ^b   Zorec, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Celica Biomedical Sciences Center   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

ANP.emd; Emerald green fluorescent protein; FM4 64; Lactotrophs

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 25144470638     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1342.029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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