Bright field microscopy as an alternative to whole cell fluorescence in automated analysis of macrophage images.

Fluorescence microscopy is the standard tool for detection and analysis of cellular phenomena. This technique, however, has a number of drawbacks such as the limited number of available fluorescent channels in microscopes, overlapping excitation and emission spectra of the stains, and phototoxicity....

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Main Authors: Jyrki Selinummi, Pekka Ruusuvuori, Irina Podolsky, Adrian Ozinsky, Elizabeth Gold, Olli Yli-Harja, Alan Aderem, Ilya Shmulevich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-10-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2760782?pdf=render