Rapid quantification of 3D collagen fiber alignment and fiber intersection correlations with high sensitivity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Sun, Meng ^a   Bloom, Alexander B ^b   Zaman, Muhammad H ^a,c  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN GEL; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN; GEL;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ALIGNMENT INDEX; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANALYTICAL SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELL MOTION; COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN FIBER ALIGNMENT; COLLAGEN FIBER INTERSECTION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBER DEGREE OF ALIGNMENT; FIBER FRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; METASTASIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TUMOR SPHEROID; BREAST TUMOR; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GEL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLLAGEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GELS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84941339372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131814     Document Type: Article

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