Deep tissue two-photon microscopy

Nature Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 932-940

  Helmchen, Fritjof ^a   Denk, Winfried ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 30944450665     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth818     Document Type: Review

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