Two-photon microscopy of fura-2-loaded cardiac myocytes with an all-solid-state tunable and visible femtosecond laser source

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 1742-1744

  McConnell, G ^a   Smith, G L ^b   Girkin, J M ^a   Gurney, A M ^a   Ferguson, A I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASERS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHOTONS;

FEMTOSECOND LASERS;

CARDIOLOGY;

FLUORESCENT DYE; FURA 2;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; LASER; MICROSCOPY; PHOTON; RABBIT; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENT DYES; FURA-2; LASERS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PHOTONS; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0141894267     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.001742     Document Type: Article

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