Analysis of fibrous proteins from electron microscopy images

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 655-667

  Zervakis, M ^a   Gkoumplias, V ^a   Tzaphlidou, M ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Collagen images; Collagen structure; Digital processing and correlation; Electron optical data; Fibrillar protein; Sequence generated histogram

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACIDS; COLLAGEN; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

COLLAGEN IMAGES; COLLAGEN STRUCTURES; DIGITAL PROCESSING AND COMPUTATION; ELECTRON-OPTICAL DATA; FIBRILLAR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE-GENERATED HISTOGRAM;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 27644512759     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2005.02.006     Document Type: Article

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