Imaging Caenorhabditis elegans embryogenesis by third-harmonic generation microscopy

Micron

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 444-447

  Tserevelakis, G J ^a,c   Filippidis, G ^a   Krmpot, A J ^a,d   Vlachos, M ^b   Fotakis, C ^a,c   Tavernarakis, N ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Embryogenesis; Imaging; THG

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; ELEGANS; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; IMAGE CONTRASTS; IMAGING MEASUREMENTS; THIRD-HARMONIC GENERATION; THIRD-HARMONIC GENERATION MICROSCOPY;

HARMONIC GENERATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MICROSCOPY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 77954383319     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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