Correlative Light and Volume Electron Microscopy: Using Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy to Image Transient Events in Model Organisms

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 111, Issue , 2012, Pages 357-382

  Bushby, Andrew J ^a   Mariggi, Giovanni ^b   Armer, Hannah E J ^c   Collinson, Lucy M ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlative light and electron microscopy; Focused ion beam SEM; Live confocal microscopy; Serial block face SEM; Volume electron microscopy; Zebrafish.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864386777     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-416026-2.00018-2     Document Type: Chapter

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