Fluorescence measurement in thick tissue layers by linear or nonlinear long-wavelength excitation

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 3662-3669

  Lenz, Peter ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

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EID: 0041939583     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003662     Document Type: Article

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