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Software opens the door to quantitative imaging

Nature Methods volume 4, pages 120–121 (2007)Cite this article

Cellular imaging by fluorescence microscopy is becoming simultaneously higher-throughput and more quantitative as researchers develop integrated systems for image acquisition and analysis.

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Figure 1: Microscope-based cytometry.

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