METHOD FOR EXAMINING A PLURALITY OF CULTURED CELLS FOR THE PRESENCE OF PERIODIC STRUCTURES OF AT LEAST ONE TARGET COMPONENT CONTAINED IN THE CULTURED CELLS.

摘要

A method for examining cultured cells for the presence of periodic structures comprises the steps of: - providing cultured cells, - fixing the cultured cells, - staining the fixed cultured cells using a first staining agent, - stimulating the first staining agent causing it to emit light, - taking a two-dimensional image (2) of the fixed cultured cells, - cross-correlating first and second filtered images derived from the image (2) of the fixed cultured cells to obtain a correlation image (3), and - determining the presence or absence of periodic structures in the fixed cultured cells by determining whether there are periodic structures of maxima and minima in brightness in the correlation image (3).