Improvement in volume estimation from confocal sections after image deconvolution

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 151-155

  Difato, F ^a,b   Mazzone, F ^a   Scaglione, S ^a   Fato, M ^a   Beltrame, F ^a   Kubinov L ^b   Janc J ^b   Ramoino, P ^a   Vicidomini, G ^a   Diaspro, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Image deconvolution; Point spread function; Three dimensional microscopy; Volume estimation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; RESTORATION;

3-D IMAGE; 3D-IMAGES; AFTER-IMAGES; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; IMAGE DECONVOLUTION; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; SMALL APERTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROSCOPY; VOLUME ESTIMATIONS;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACRONICTA LEPORINA;

EID: 4344681409     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20063     Document Type: Article

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