Airborne bacterial endospores detected by use of an impinger containing aqueous terbium chloride

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 3152-3157

  Rosen, David L ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CHEMICAL SENSORS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EVAPORATION; LUMINESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SOLUTIONS; TERBIUM;

AEROSOL CHAMBER; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORES; IMPINGER;

BACTERIA;

TERBIUM; TERBIUM TRICHLORIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CHEMISTRY; ENDOSPORE-FORMING RODS AND COCCI; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ENDOSPORE-FORMING BACTERIA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TERBIUM; WATER;

EID: 33745029141     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.003152     Document Type: Article

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