Towards fully automated identification of vesicle-membrane fusion events in TIRF microscopy

International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 502-515

  Mele, Katarina ^a,b   Vallotton, Pascal ^a   Burchfield, James G ^b   James, David E ^b   Hughes, William E ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

eGFP phogrin; GFP GLUT4; IRAP pHluorin; TIRF M; total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy; vesicle fusion; vesicle tracking; vesicles

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951708639     PISSN: 17572657     EISSN: 17572665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCAET.2009.028555     Document Type: Article

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