Epifluorescence, confocal and total internal reflection microscopy for single-molecule experiments: A quantitative comparison

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 118-123

  Lang, E ^a   Baier, J ^a   Kohler J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Fluorescence microscopy; Single molecule spectroscopy; TIR microscopy

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EMISSIONS INTENSITY; EPIFLUORESCENCES; EXCITATION RATE; OPTICAL-; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE MOLECULE EXPERIMENTS; SINGLE-MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY; TIR MICROSCOPY; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION MICROSCOPY;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULE; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION MICROSCOPY;

EID: 33745071794     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2006.01579.x     Document Type: Article

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