Near-field confocal optical spectroscopy (NCOS): Subdiffraction optical resolution for biological systems

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 208-216

  Haydon, P G ^a   Marchese Ragona, S ^a   Basarsky, T A ^a   Szulczewski, M ^b   McCloskey, M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Prairie Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium; fluo 3; fluorescence; hippocampus; near field; NSOM

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; PROBES;

BIOLOGICAL STUDIES; FLUO-3; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEAR FIELD MICROSCOPY; NEAR FIELD PROBES; NEAR FIELDS; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; SUB-DIFFRACTION; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES;

CALCIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL MEMBRANE; DIFFRACTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE; ILLUMINATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PERITONEUM MAST CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029762128     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1996.tb04798.x     Document Type: Article

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