Autofluorescence imaging of human RPE cell granules using structured illumination microscopy

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1141-1144

  Ach, Thomas ^a   Best, Gerrit ^a,b   Rossberger, Sabrina ^a,b   Heintzmann, Rainer ^c,d   Cremer, Christoph ^b,e   Dithmar, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CELL GRANULE; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPY;

AGED; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; LIPOFUSCIN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84864860464     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2012-301547     Document Type: Article

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