Confocal Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) at the Single Molecule Level

Single Molecules

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 215-223

  Tinnefeld, Philip ^a   Buschmann, Volker ^a   Herten, Dirk Peter ^a   Han, Kyung Tae ^a   Sauer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 0000126111     PISSN: 14385163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1438-5171(200009)1:3<215::AID-SIMO215>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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