Three-dimensional analysis of intermediate filament networks using SEM tomography

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 239, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-16

  Luck S ^a   Sailer, M ^a   Schmidt, V ^a   Walther, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Intermediate filaments; Network morphology; SEM tomography

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

CYTOSKELETONS; ELECTRON SIGNALS; FILAMENT NETWORKS; HIGH CONTRAST; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; NETWORK MORPHOLOGY; SECONDARY ELECTRONS; SEM TOMOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKELETONIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THRESHOLDING; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; TUMOR CELL LINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953845921     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2009.03348.x     Document Type: Article

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