Improving the quality of electron tomography image volumes using pre-reconstruction filtering

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 132-142

  Maiorca, Mauro ^a,b   Hanssen, Eric ^a,b   Kazmierczak, Edmund ^b   Maco, Bohumil ^c   Kudryashev, Misha ^d   Hall, Richard ^b   Quiney, Harry ^b   Tilley, Leann ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Denoising; Electron tomography; Non linear anisotropic diffusion filtering; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE; FILTER; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NON LINEAR ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM YIELD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TILTING;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPOROZOITES;

EID: 84867013267     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2012.05.019     Document Type: Article

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