Scanning transmission electron microscopy through-focal tilt-series on biological specimens

Micron

Volumn 77, Issue , 2015, Pages 9-15

  Trepout, Sylvain ^a,b   Messaoudi, Cédric ^a,b   Perrot, Sylvie ^c   Bastin, Philippe ^c   Marco, Sergio ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b Centre de Recherche   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Depth of field; Flagella; Scanning transmission electron microscopy; Through focal tilt series; Tomography; Transmission electron microscopy; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DEPTH OF FIELD; FLAGELLA; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THROUGH-FOCAL TILT-SERIES; TRYPANOSOME;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

PROTISTA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FLAGELLUM; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; FLAGELLA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 84935038374     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2015.05.015     Document Type: Article

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