Heterogeneous photobleaching in confocal microscopy caused by differences in refractive index and excitation mode

Cytometry

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 137-146

  Van Oostveldt, Patric ^a,b   Verhaegen, Frank ^a   Messens, Kathy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Lab for Biochem and Molec Cytol   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Fading; Fluorescence microscopy; Photobleaching

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE DEXTRAN; MICROSPHERE; POLYSTYRENE;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX;

FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLYSTYRENES; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 0032101903     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19980601)32:2<137::AID-CYTO9>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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