Counting unstained, confluent cells by modified bright-field microscopy

BioTechniques

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-33

  Drey, L Louis ^a   Graber, Michael C ^a   Bieschke, Jan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightfield; Cell counting; Cell culture; Defocusing; Fluorescence; Microscopy; Monochromatic; PBS; Pinhole

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRIGHT FIELD MICROSCOPY; CELL ADHESION; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL;

CELL COUNT; CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MICROSCOPY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84880064832     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: 19409818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000114056     Document Type: Article

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