Nanosizing of fluorescent objects by spatially modulated illumination microscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 34, 2002, Pages 7275-7283

  Failla, Antonio Virgilio ^a   Spoeri, Udo ^a   Albrecht, Benno ^a   Kroll, Alexander ^a   Cremer, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA REDUCTION; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TOPOLOGY;

FLUORESCENT OBJECTS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0036903851     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.007275     Document Type: Article

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