Geometric determination of saturation in fluorescence spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2879-2886

  Marrocco, Michele ^a  

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAMS; LASER DIAGNOSTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; LASER INTENSITY; SATURATION; SPECTROSCOPIC SIGNALS;

FLUORESCENCE;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 19944425503     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.002879     Document Type: Article

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