A new method for quantitative cellular imaging on 3-D scaffolds using fluorescence microscopy

IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 110-117

  Santarelli, Maria Filomena ^a   Sani, Lorenzo ^a   Ahluwalia, Arti ^b   Vozzi, Giovanni ^b   Landini, Luigi ^b   De Rossi, Danilo ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell counting; Cellular imaging; Fluorescence confocal microscopy; Statistical image processing

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; CELLS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CELL COUNTING; CELLULAR IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL IMAGE PROCESSING;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VALIDATION STUDY;

3T3 CELLS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SIZE; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 3042767739     PISSN: 15361241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNB.2003.813938     Document Type: Article

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