Quantitative in vivo imaging of entire embryos with Digital Scanned Laser Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 624-632

  Keller, Philipp J ^a   Stelzer, Ernst HK ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALS; FETUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; PHOTOBLEACHING;

EID: 65149091762     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2009.03.008     Document Type: Review

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