Multiphoton-Excited Visible Emission by Serotonin Solutions

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 931-936

  Shear, Jason B ^a,b   Xu, Chris ^b   Webb, Watt W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

DIFFUSION; PHOTONS; SEROTONIN; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 0031155251     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb07950.x     Document Type: Article

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