Determination of the confocal volume for quantitative fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6630, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ruttinger S ^a   Buschmann, V ^b   Kramer B ^b   Erdmann, R ^b   Macdonald, R ^a   Koberling, F ^b  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b PICOQUANT GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CURVE FITTING; REFRACTION;

CONFOCAL BEAD SCANNING; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY (FCS); NANO-MOLAR CONCENTRATION RANGE; OPTICAL SATURATION;

FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 36249031573     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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