A semiautomatic cell counting tool for quantitative imaging of tissue engineering scaffolds

Tissue Engineering - Part C: Methods

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 697-707

  De Boodt, Sebastian ^a   Poursaberi, Ahmad ^a   Schrooten, Jan ^a   Berckmans, Daniel ^a   Aerts, Jean Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; HYDROGELS; SUBSTRATES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOOLS;

AUTOMATIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; AVERAGE RELATIVE ERROR; BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; FLUORESCENCE IMAGE; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE TOOL; SEMI-AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; TISSUE ENGINEERING SCAFFOLD;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

FIBRIN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TITANIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PERIOSTEUM; STEM CELL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CELL COUNT; FIBRIN; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; HYDROGEL; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PERIOSTEUM; STEM CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TITANIUM;

EID: 84880597551     PISSN: 19373384     EISSN: 19373392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2012.0486     Document Type: Article

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