Determining membrane permeability of giant phospholipid vesicles from a series of videomicroscopy images

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Peterlin, Primož ^a   Jakli, Gaper ^a,b   Pisanski, Tomaž ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Giant unilamellar vesicle; Image analysis; Membrane permeability; Phase contrast microscopy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BINARIZATION; EXISTING METHOD; GIANT UNILAMELLAR VESICLE; GIANT UNILAMELLAR VESICLES; LIPID MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICRO-PIPETTE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPES; PHASE-CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANE; PHOSPHOLIPID VESICLES; SEQUENCE OF IMAGES; TEST SETS; TIME DEPENDENCE; VIDEOMICROSCOPY;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CAMERAS; GLYCEROL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIPOSOMES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SYNCHROTRONS;

CAPILLARITY;

EID: 70349303661     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/20/5/055801     Document Type: Article

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