Analysis of nanoparticle transmission electron microscopy data using a public- domain image-processing program, Image

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-13

  Woehrle, Gerd H ^a   Hutchison, James E ^a   Özkar, Saim ^b   Finke, Richard G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Histograms; Image (NIH Image, Scion Image, Image J); Image analysis; Nanoparticles; Particle size distributions; Transmission Electron Microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745923793     PISSN: 13000527     EISSN: 13000527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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