Defocus estimation from stroboscopic cryo-electron microscopy data

Ultramicroscopy

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1592-1598

  Karimi Nejadasl, Fatemeh ^a   Karuppasamy, Manikandan ^a   Koster, Abraham J ^a   Ravelli, Raimond B G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cryo electron microscopy; CTF; Defocus estimation; Figure of merit; Q factor; Stroboscopic data collection

Indexed keywords

CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CTF; DATA COLLECTION; DEFOCUS ESTIMATION; FIGURE OF MERIT; Q-FACTORS;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MEDICAL IMAGING; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; STROBOSCOPY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEMOGLOBINS; OLIGOCHAETA;

EID: 80053172835     PISSN: 03043991     EISSN: 18792723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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