Fiber-optic fluorescence imaging

Nature Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 941-950

  Flusberg, Benjamin A ^a   Cocker, Eric D ^a   Piyawattanametha, Wibool ^a   Jung, Juergen C ^a   Cheung, Eunice L M ^a   Schnitzer, Mark J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL; DEVICE; ELECTRONICS; ENDOSCOPE; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 30944448496     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth820     Document Type: Review

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