Instrumentation for multiwavelengths excitation imaging

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 137-147

  Messler, Peter ^a   Harz, Hartmann ^a   Uhl, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcium indicator; Fluorescence microscopy; Monochromator; Ratio imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CALCIUM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MATHEMATICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PC12 CELLS; RATS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030298537     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(96)00032-5     Document Type: Article

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