In vivo Image Flow Cytometry

Advanced Optical Flow Cytometry: Methods and Disease Diagnoses

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 387-431

  Tuchin, Valery V ^a,b   Galanzha, Ekaterina I ^a,c   Zharov, Vladimir P ^c  

^a SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRECISION MECHANICS AND CONTROL   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Blood flow; In vivo cytometry; Intravital microscopy; Lymph flow; Microcirculation; Optical imaging; Sentinel lymph node (sln); Transmission digital microscopy (tdm)

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053111044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527634286.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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