Experimental and model investigations of bleaching and saturation of fluorescence in flow cytometry

Cytometry

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 204-214

  Doornbos, Richard M P ^a   De Grooth, Bart G ^b   Greve, Jan ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allophycocyanin; Flow cytometry; Fluorescein; Photobleaching; Photodestr uction; Phycoerythrin; Quantification; Single molecule detection; Triplet state

Indexed keywords

ALLOPHYCOCYANIN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; PHYCOERYTHRIN;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CALCULATION; CELL LABELING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHYCOCYANIN; PHYCOERYTHRIN;

EID: 0030778406     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19971101)29:3<204::AID-CYTO3>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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