Two-photon interactions at single fluorescent molecule level

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 391-395

  Cannone, Fabio ^a   Chirico, Giuseppe ^b   Diaspro, Alberto ^a,c  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fluorescence detection; Fluorescent molecules; Single molecule detection; Thermal bleaching; Two photon excitation; Two photon interactions

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PHOTONS; PROTEINS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

PHOTOBLEACHING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INDO 1; INDO-1; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PHOTOPROTEIN; PYRENE; PYRENE DERIVATIVE; RHODAMINE; RHODAMINE 6G;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCENT DYES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INDOLES; LASERS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; PYRENES; RHODAMINES;

EID: 0141756183     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1582180     Document Type: Article

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