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Coral histopathological slides and associated documentation from Cheryl M. Woodley that were sent to scanning on 2007-07-18 for the Coral Virtual Microscopy project of NOAA (NCEI Accession 0187857)

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This dataset contains scanned images of coral histological slides that were scanned into pyramidal tiled TIFF images (Aperio SVS file format). The slides have been collected by Cheryl M. Woodley and have been provided to NOAA for scanning. The dataset also includes histopathological descriptions and other metadata including location, date collected, genus, species, and contributor.

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0187857 CORAL CORAL - SPECIES IDENTIFICATION camera microscope biological imagery laboratory analyses

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title Coral histopathological slides and associated documentation from Cheryl M. Woodley that were sent to scanning on 2007-07-18 for the Coral Virtual Microscopy project of NOAA (NCEI Accession 0187857)

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