On the use of Ripley's K-function and its derivatives to analyze domain size

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1095-1103

  Kiskowski, Maria A ^a   Hancock, John F ^b   Kenworthy, Anne K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIPLEY K FUNCTION;

EID: 69449102231     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.05.039     Document Type: Article

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