FibrilTool, an ImageJ plug-in to quantify fibrillar structures in raw microscopy images

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 457-463

  Boudaoud, Arezki ^a,b   Burian, Agata ^c   Borowska Wykrȩt, Dorota ^b   Uyttewaal, Magalie ^a,d   Wrzalik, Roman ^c   Kwiatkowska, Dorota ^c   Hamant, Olivier ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Laboratoire Joliot Curie   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^d INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CELLULOSE; COLLAGEN;

ANISOTROPY; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FIBER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ACTINS; CELLS; CELLULOSE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84893302816     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.024     Document Type: Article

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