Time-resolved identification of individual mononucleotide molecules in aqueous solution with pulsed semiconductor lasers

Bioimaging

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 14-24

  Sauer, Markus ^a   Arden Jacob, Jutta ^b   Drexhage, Karl H ^b   Göbel, Florian ^a   Lieberwirth, Ulrike ^a   Mühlegger, Klaus ^c   Müller, Ralph ^a   Wolfrum, Jürgen ^a   Zander, Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^c F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Pulsed diode laser excitation; Single molecule detection and identification; Single molecule DNA sequencing; Time resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BORADIAZAINDACENE; CARBOCYANINE; FLUORESCENT DYE; OXAZINE; RHODAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIODE LASER; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031944985     PISSN: 09669051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1361-6374(199803)6:1<14::AID-BIO3>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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