Rapid optically based measurements of diameter and length for spherical or rod-shaped bacteria in vivo

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 28, 2004, Pages 5295-5302

  Van De Merwe, Willem P ^a,b   Czégé, József ^b   Milham, Merrill E ^c   Bronk, Burt V ^d  

^a INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Detection Science Consulting   (United States)

^d EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACTERIA; CELLS; GRAPH THEORY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OSCILLATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

BACTERIAL CELLS; COULTER COUNTER MEASUREMENT; MUELLER MATRIX RATIO;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 5444262107     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005295     Document Type: Article

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