Two-dimensional multiwavelength fluorescence spectra of dipicolinic acid and calcium dipicolinate

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1182-1187

  Sarasanandarajah, Sivananthan ^a   Kunnil, Joseph ^a   Bronk, Burt V ^b   Reinisch, Lou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; GAMMA RAYS; IRRADIATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DIPICOLINIC ACID; EMISSION SPECTRUM; FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION; MULTIWAVELENGTH FLUORESCENCE;

FLUORESCENCE;

CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; DIPICOLINIC ACID; PICOLINIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; PICOLINIC ACIDS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 14844288297     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001182     Document Type: Article

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