Detecting membrane lipid microdomains by two-photon fluorescence microscopy

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 92-99

  Parasassi, Tiziana ^a   Gratton, Enrico ^b   Zajicek, Hubert ^d   Levi, Moshe ^d   Yu, Weiming ^b,c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIPIDS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTONS;

GENERALIZED POLARIZATION; HETEROGENEITY; LIPID PROBE; MEMBRANE LIPID MICRODOMAINS; PHOSPHOLIPID VESICLES; TWO PHOTON EXCITATION;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIPID BILAYER; MODEL; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY CORTEX; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROVILLI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPOSSUMS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

EID: 0033197448     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/51.790991     Document Type: Article

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