Automated multichannel fluorescent whole slide imaging and its application for cytometry

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1020-1030

  Varga, Viktor Sebestyén ^a   Ficsor, Levente ^a   Kamarás, Viktor ^a   Jónás, Viktor ^a   Virág, Tibor ^a   Tulassay, Zsolt ^b   Molnár, Béla ^c  

^a 3DHISTECH Ltd   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Digital slide; Image cytometry; Slide based cytometry; Virtual microscopy; Whole slide imaging

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; MICROSPHERES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 73249133297     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20791     Document Type: Article

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