Use of silica microspheres having refractive index similar to bacteria for conversion of flow cytometric forward light scatter into biovolume

Water Research

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3757-3766

  Foladori, Paola ^a   Quaranta, Alberto ^a   Ziglio, Giuliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Biovolume; Flow cytometry; Forward angle light scattering; Rayleigh Gans theory; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

FLOWMETERS; FORWARD SCATTERING; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSPHERES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILICA;

BACTERIAL CELLS; BIOVOLUMES; CYTOMETERS; FORWARD ANGLE LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT-SCATTERING INTENSITY; MAIN PARAMETERS; PARAMETER CHARACTERISTIC; RAPID CONVERSION; RAYLEIGH-GANS THEORY; SILICA MICROSPHERES;

BACTERIA;

MICROSPHERE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

BACTERIUM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MODELING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CALIBRATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 50449087580     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2008.06.026     Document Type: Article

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