Detection and isolation of circulating melanoma cells using photoacoustic flowmetry

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 57, 2011, Pages

  O'Brien, Christine M ^a   Rood, Kyle ^a   Sengupta, Shramik ^a   Gupta, Sagar K ^a   DeSouza, Thiago ^a   Cook, Aaron ^a   Viator, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioengineering; Cancer; Circulating tumor cell; CTCs; Issue 57; Melanoma; Metastasis; Optoacoustic

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455210346     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3559     Document Type: Article

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