Semiautomatic growth analysis of multicellular tumor spheroids

Journal of Biomolecular Screening

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1119-1124

  Rodday, Bjoern ^a   Hirschhaeuser, Franziska ^a   Walenta, Stefan ^a   Mueller Klieser, Wolfgang ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D cell culture; drug response; multicellular tumor spheroids; size measurement; volume growth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SIZE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROTITER PLATE ASSAY; MULTICELLULAR TUMOR SPHEROID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TUMOR SPHEROID; TUMOR VOLUME;

AUTOMATION, LABORATORY; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 80053532705     PISSN: 10870571     EISSN: 1552454X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1087057111419501     Document Type: Article

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