Integrative Approaches for Cellular Cryo-electron Tomography: Correlative Imaging and Focused Ion Beam Micromachining

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 111, Issue , 2012, Pages 259-281

  Rigort, Alexander ^a   Villa, Elizabeth ^a   Bäuerlein, Felix J B ^a   Engel, Benjamin D ^a   Plitzko, Jürgen M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated segmentation.; Cellular electron tomography; Correlative microscopy; Cryo FIB; Focused ion beam; Frozen hydrated cells; Structural biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864386261     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-416026-2.00014-5     Document Type: Chapter

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