Second harmonic generation microscopy for quantitative analysis of collagen fibrillar structure

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 654-669

  Chen, Xiyi ^a   Nadiarynkh, Oleg ^a,b   Plotnikov, Sergey ^a,c   Campagnola, Paul J ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION; COLLAGEN; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS;

EID: 84863238548     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.009     Document Type: Article

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