Cancer multicellular spheroids: Volume assessment from a single 2D projection

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 95-106

  Piccinini, Filippo ^a   Tesei, Anna ^b   Arienti, Chiara ^b   Bevilacqua, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Image processing; Multi cellular tumour aggregates; Pre clinical oncology; Software application; Volume rendering; Widefield microscopy

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; DISEASES; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; TUMORS; VOLUME RENDERING;

3D RECONSTRUCTION; IMPORTANT FEATURES; MICROSCOPE IMAGES; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PRE-CLINICAL; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; WIDE-FIELD MICROSCOPIES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; CANCER MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HOLOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; RECONSTRUCTION AND VISUALIZATION FROM A SINGLE PROJECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME; X RAY; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EID: 84922344425     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2014.12.003     Document Type: Article

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