Critical evaluation of quantitative colocalization analysis in confocal fluorescence microscopy

Interdisciplinary Sciences – Computational Life Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-37

  Wu, Yong ^a   Zinchuk, Vadim ^b   Grossenbacher Zinchuk, Olga ^c   Stefani, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

colocalization; confocal microscopy; fluorescence microscopy; image analysis

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 84864302847     PISSN: 19132751     EISSN: 18671462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12539-012-0117-x     Document Type: Article

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