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Specimen Preparation, Imaging, and Analysis Protocols for Knife-edge Scanning Microscopy
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Digital imaging of surgical specimens using a wet scanning technique

T J Matthews1, P A Denney

  • 1Department of Cellular Pathology, Epsom General Hospital, Dorking Road, Epsom, Surrey KT18 7EG, UK. matthew@sthelier.sghms.ac.uk

Journal of Clinical Pathology
|April 18, 2001
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