Cooperative 4Pi excitation and detection yields sevenfold sharper optical sections in live-cell microscopy

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 4146-4152

  Gugel, Hilmar ^a   Bewersdorf, Jörg ^b   Jakobs, Stefan ^b   Engelhardt, Johann ^c   Storz, Rafael ^a   Hell, Stefan W ^b,c  

^a Leica Microsystems Heidelberg GmbH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING; MICROSCOPE; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 10044248656     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.045815     Document Type: Article

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