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Reconstruction from stereo and multiple tilt electron microscope images of thick sections of embedded biological

L D Peachey1, J P Heath

  • 1Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6019.

Journal of Microscopy
|February 1, 1989
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