Quimp3, an automated pseudopod-tracking algorithm

Cell Adhesion and Migration

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-55

  Bosgraaf, Leonard ^a   Van Haastert, Peter J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cell movement; Chemotaxis; Computer aided; Dictyostelium; Locomotion; Protrusion; Pseudopod

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SIZE; DICTYOSTELIUM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOPODIUM;

DICTYOSTELIUM; PSEUDOPODA;

EID: 77449086787     PISSN: 19336918     EISSN: 19336926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cam.4.1.9953     Document Type: Article

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