Paper:
High-Speed Focusing and Tracking of Multisized Microbiological Objects
Chanh-Nghiem Nguyen, Kenichi Ohara, Yasushi Mae,
and Tatsuo Arai
Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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