Cross-talk reduction in confocal images of dual fluorescence labelled cell spheroids

被引:9
作者
Ahammer, H [1 ]
DeVaney, TTJ [1 ]
Hartbauer, M [1 ]
Tritthart, HA [1 ]
机构
[1] Graz Univ Technol, Inst Med Phys & Biophys, A-8010 Graz, Austria
关键词
confocal microscopy; subtraction; image processing; image enhancement; cancer; confrontation;
D O I
10.1016/S0968-4328(99)00029-3
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TH742 [显微镜];
学科分类号
摘要
Dual fluorescence labelling is an advanced method to separate two individual specimens in a biological system using confocal microscopy. An inherent problem of this method is fluorescence channel cross-talk, which causes problems for the exact spatial determination and separation of the specimens. Using a parallel fluorescence detection and an image processing technique, based on an image subtraction method, we have developed a very straight forward method for correcting the dual channel fluorescence images. We successfully applied this method to a 3-dimensional cancer spheroid invasion assay and controlled the cross-talk compensation efficiency by a quality parameter. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:309 / 317
页数:9
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