An automatic method of detecting and tracking fiducial markers for alignment in electron tomography

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-46

  Cao, Meng ^a   Takaoka, Akio ^b   Zhang, Hai Bo ^a   Nishi, Ryuji ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

automatic alignment; detection and tracking; electron tomography; fiducial marker

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL GOLD;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FIDUCIAL MARKER; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; GOLD COLLOID; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SOFTWARE;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES;

AUTOMATIC ALIGNMENT; AUTOMATIC METHOD; COLLOIDAL GOLD; CONSTRAINTS MODELS; DETECTION AND TRACKING; DIMENSIONAL POSITION; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FIDUCIAL MARKER; NORMALIZED CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; SECOND-ORDER DERIVATIVE;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 79951639919     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: 14779986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/dfq076     Document Type: Article

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