On defining the thermal history of cells during the freezing of biological materials
- 1 December 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Microscopy
- Vol. 117 (3) , 395-409
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1979.tb04696.x
Abstract
An explicit numerical finite difference scheme for defining the thermal history of a cell or group of cells contained within a biological sample of prescribed shape is described. Solutions are presented for 3 different cases of freezing of biological materials prior to microscopic examination. A surface boundary condition must be specified in any experiment before cell ultrastructure or viability can be related to thermal history or cooling rate.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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