Development of a standing-wave fluorescence microscope with high nodal plane flatness

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 193-200

  Freimann, R ^a   Pentz, S ^b   Horler H ^b  

^a CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actin filaments; Fluorescence microscopy; Standing wave microscopy; Stress fibres; Superresolution

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; ELASTIC WAVES; FLUORESCENCE; LASER BEAMS; LASER EXCITATION; LIGHT SOURCES; MICROSCOPES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PROTEINS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ACTIN FILAMENT; DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS; EXCITATION FIELD; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPES; IMAGES PROCESSING; STANDING WAVE; STANDING-WAVE MICROSCOPY; STRESS FIBERS; SUPERRESOLUTION; UNIFORM EXCITATION;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HELIUM NEON LASER; LIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0030761881     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1997.2290789.x     Document Type: Article

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