A preliminary assessment of using a white light confocal imaging profiler for cut mark analysis

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 915, Issue , 2012, Pages 235-248

  Schmidt, Christopher W ^a   Moore, Christopher R ^a   Leifheit, Randell ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS   (United States)

^b Solarius Development Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Pathology; Profilometry; Topography; Trauma

Indexed keywords

STEEL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE; CATTLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CATTLE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; STEEL;

EID: 84867550955     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-977-8_14     Document Type: Article

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