Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 631-637 , October 2008

Modelling of chromatin morphologies in breast cancer cells undergoing apoptosis using generalized Cauchy field

  • S.V. Muniandy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    • Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Physics, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
    • ,
  • J. Stanslas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    • Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Received 14 February 2008 ,Revised 5 July 2008 ,Accepted 14 July 2008.

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Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 631-637 , October 2008

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