Super-resolution measurements with evanescent-wave fluorescence excitation using variable beam incidence

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-30

  Loerke, Dinah ^a   Preitz, Beate ^a   Stühmer, Walter ^a   Oheim, Martin ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; CELLS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FLUORESCENCE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PRISMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EVANESCENT-WAVE FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY (TIRFM);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; FLUORESCENT DYE; HORMONE;

CELL GRANULE; CELL ORGANELLE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; NEUROSECRETION; REVIEW; SECRETION;

CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; FLUORESCENT DYES; HORMONES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; ORGANELLES;

EID: 0033624441     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.429964     Document Type: Article

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