CiliaFA: A research tool for automated, high-throughput measurement of ciliary beat frequency using freely available software

Cilia

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Smith, Claire M ^a   Djakow, Jana ^b   Free, Robert C ^a   Djakow, Petr ^c   Lonnen, Rana ^a   Williams, Gwyneth ^a   Pohunek, Petr ^b   Hirst, Robert A ^a   Easton, Andrew J ^d   Andrew, Peter W ^a   O'Callaghan, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

^c Siemens IT Solutions   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOLYSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CILIARY MOTILITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; EPENDYMA CELL; EPENDYMAL CILIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATORY CILIUM;

EID: 84874828597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2046-2530-1-14     Document Type: Article

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