Transmission Electron Microscopy of Biological Specimens

Techniques in Microscopy for Biomedical Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 153-211

  Dokland, Terje ^a   Ng, Mary Mah Lee ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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DOI: 10.1142/9789812774743_0005     Document Type: Chapter

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