3D reconstruction of biological structures: automated procedures for alignment and reconstruction of multiple tilt series in electron tomography

Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Phan, Sébastien ^a   Boassa, Daniela ^a   Nguyen, Phuong ^a   Wan, Xiaohua ^a   Lanman, Jason ^a,b   Lawrence, Albert ^a   Ellisman, Mark H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Electron tomography; Iterative methods; Tomogram averaging; TxBR

Indexed keywords

EID: 85036582843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21980926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40679-016-0021-2     Document Type: Article

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