Imaging Flow Cytometry: Coping with Heterogeneity in Biological Systems

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 723-733

  Barteneva, Natasha S ^a   Fasler Kan, Elizaveta ^b   Vorobjev, Ivan A ^c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

biological heterogeneity; cellular morphology; flow cytometry; fluorescence; high throughput fluorescent microscopy; imaging flow cytometry; Poisson distribution; single cell

Indexed keywords

CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HIGH THROUGHPUT FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPY; IMAGING FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84869824905     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/0022155412453052     Document Type: Review

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