Quantitative measurements of apoptotic cell properties using acoustic microscopy

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2293-2304

  Strohm, Eric M ^a   Czarnota, Gregory J ^b,c   Kolios, Michael C ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-COEFFICIENT; ACOUSTIC IMAGES; ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOTIC; APOPTOTIC CELLS; BEFORE AND AFTER; BULK COMPOSITIONS; BULK MODULUS; CELL THICKNESS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; FUNCTION OF TIME; NORMALIZED CROSS-CORRELATION; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; RF SIGNAL; SOUND VELOCITIES; STRONG CORRELATION; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; TIME-RESOLVED ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTER;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPES; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BACKSCATTERING; CELL DEATH; ELASTIC MODULI;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE;

POLYVINYL DERIVATIVE; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ALGORITHM; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CELL FUNCTION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ALGORITHMS; APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; POLYVINYLS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77957712063     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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