Observation of the dynamics of live cardiomyocytes through a free-running scanning near-field optical microscopy setup

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 31, 1999, Pages 6648-6652

  Micheletto, Ruggero ^a   Denyer, Morgan ^b   Scholl, Martin ^b   Nakajima, Ken ^b   Offenhauser, Andreas ^c   Hara, Masahiko ^b   Knoll, Wolfgang ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

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EID: 0000629496     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.006648     Document Type: Article

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