An improved strategy for automated electron microscopic tomography

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 91-101

  Zheng, Qingxiong S ^a   Braunfeld, Michael B ^a   Sedat, John W ^b   Agard, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated data collection; Cryo microscopy; Tomography; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 2942608087     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2004.02.005     Document Type: Article

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