Effects of multiple-passage probabilities on fluorescent signals from biological media

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 4613-4619

  Gandjbakhche, Amir H ^a   Bonner, Robert F ^b   Nossal, Ralph ^a   Weiss, George H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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EID: 0000279316     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004613     Document Type: Article

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