Accurate single-pair Förster resonant energy transfer through combination of pulsed interleaved excitation, time correlated single-photon counting, and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Rüttinger, Steffen ^a   Macdonald, Rainer ^a   Krämer, Benedikt ^b   Koberling, Felix ^b   Roos, Martin ^c   Hildt, Eberhardt ^c  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b PICOQUANT GMBH   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Correlation; Fluorescence; Microscopy; Molecules; Quantization

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY;

FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FORSTER RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFER; PULSED-INTERLEAVED EXCITATION; ZERO-EFFICIENCY PEAK;

ENERGY TRANSFER;

ALEXA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; PILOT STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STATISTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; PHOTONS; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STATISTICS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 33746408759     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2187425     Document Type: Article

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