Polystyrene Microspheres in Tissue-Simulating Phantoms can Collisionally Quench Fluorescence

Journal of Fluorescence

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 105-108

  Vishwanath, Karthik ^a   Mycek, Mary Ann ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collisional quenching; Fluorescein dye; Polystyrene microspheres; Time resolved fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy; Tissue phantoms

Indexed keywords

FLUOROPHORES; MICROSPHERE; TISSUE PHANTOMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYES; GROUND STATE; LIGHT SCATTERING; POLYSTYRENES; QUENCHING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0347720847     PISSN: 10530509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022318900882     Document Type: Article

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