Confocal theta fluorescence microscopy using two-photon absorption and annular apertures

Optik (Jena)

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 131-134

  Lindek, S ^a,b   Cremer, C ^a,b   Stelzer, E H K ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANNULAR APERTURES; CONFOCAL THETA FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUOROPHORE; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; SECOND OBJECTIVE LENS; TWO PHONON ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0030146186     PISSN: 00304026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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