Plant Tissues in 3D via X-Ray Tomography: Simple Contrasting Methods Allow High Resolution Imaging

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Staedler, Yannick M ^a   Masson, David ^b   Schönenberger, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH TARTRATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; IRON DIAMINE; LEAD CITRATE; LUGOL; OSMJUM TETROXIDE; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; PHOSPHOTUNGSTIC ACID; RUTHENIUM RED; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFFINITY LABELING; ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BLEACHING; CALYCANTHUS FLORIDUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FLOWER; FLOWER MORPHOLOGY; HAPLOPHYLLUM LISSOTUM; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MARCGRAVIA CAUDATA; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OVARY WALL; OVULE; PETAL; PHENOTYPE; PISTIL STIGMA; PLANT TISSUE; POLLEN; RADIATION ABSORPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEPAL; STAMEN FILAMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ARABIDOPSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLOWERS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; OSMIUM TETROXIDE; PHOSPHOTUNGSTIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TARTRATES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY;

EID: 84884696281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075295     Document Type: Article

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