Quantitative confocal microscopy. Beyond a pretty picture

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 123, Issue , 2014, Pages 113-134

  Jonkman, James ^a   Brown, Claire M ^b   Cole, Richard W ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal; Controls; Morphology; Performance testing; PMT; Protocols; Quantification; Spectral

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DEVICES; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; LASER; PROCEDURES; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84902986935     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-420138-5.00007-0     Document Type: Chapter

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