Stereology and morphometry of lung tissue

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 931, Issue , 2012, Pages 367-390

  Mühlfeld, Christian ^a   Knudsen, Lars ^a   Ochs, Matthias ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alveoli; Design based stereology; Disector; Lung; Sampling; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG STRUCTURE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; STEREOLOGY; TISSUE FIXATION; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84934441857     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-56-4_18     Document Type: Article

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