Setup and use of a two-laser multiphoton microscope for multichannel intravital fluorescence imaging

Nature Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1500-1520

  Entenberg, David ^a   Wyckoff, Jeffrey ^a   Gligorijevic, Bojana ^a   Roussos, Evanthia T ^a   Verkhusha, Vladislav V ^a   Pollard, Jeffrey W ^a   Condeelis, John ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONICS; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LASER MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79960784800     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.376     Document Type: Article

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