Estimating the cell density and invasive radius of three-dimensional glioblastoma tumor spheroids grown in vitro

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 5110-5118

  Stein, Andrew M ^a   Nowicki, Michal O ^b   Demuth, Tim ^c   Berens, Michael E ^c   Lawler, Sean E ^b   Chiocca, E Antonio ^b   Sander, Leonard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELL GROWTH; COLLAGEN; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TUMORS;

BRAIN TUMOR INVASION; CELL DENSITY; COLLAGEN GELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL GLIOBLASTOMA TUMOR SPHEROIDS;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; OPTICS; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL COUNT; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; OPTICS; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 35448996430     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.005110     Document Type: Article

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