Assessing camera performance for quantitative microscopy

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 123, Issue , 2014, Pages 35-53

  Lambert, Talley J ^a   Waters, Jennifer C ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

CCD; Digital cameras; Digitization; EMCCD; Noise; Photon transfer; SCMOS; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

DEVICES; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STANDARDS;

IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84902964463     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-420138-5.00003-3     Document Type: Chapter

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