Bridging Microscopes: 3D Correlative Light and Scanning Electron Microscopy of Complex Biological Structures

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 111, Issue , 2012, Pages 325-356

  Lucas, Miriam S ^a   Günthert, Maja ^a   Gasser, Philippe ^a   Lucas, Falk ^a   Wepf, Roger ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

(Correlative) array tomography; Block face imaging; Correlative light and scanning electron microscopy; Focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864391375     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-416026-2.00017-0     Document Type: Chapter

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