Morphological quantification of polymer nanofibers in tissue engineering images

Latin American Applied Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-95

  Gonzalez, M A ^a,c   Montini Ballarin, F ^b,c   Brun, M ^a   Abraham, G ^b   Ballarin, V L ^a  

^a Lab Process and Measurement Signal Processing School of Engineering UNMdP   (Argentina)

^b Biomedical Polymers Group INTEMA (UNMdP CONICET) Mar Del Plata   (Argentina)

^c CONICET ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biomedical Polymers; Digital Image Processing; Mathematical Morphology; Tissue Engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868574119     PISSN: 03270793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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