Picosecond-resolution fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy: A useful tool for sensing molecular interactions in vivo via FRET

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 18220-18235

  Zhong, Wei ^a   Wu, Mei ^a,b   Chang, Ching Wei ^a   Merrick, Karl A ^b   Merajver, Sofia D ^a,b   Mycek, Mary Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUOROPHORES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

BINDING PARTNERS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING MICROSCOPY (FLIM); FORSTER RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER (FRET); INTENSITY-BASED MEASUREMENTS;

MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37549010781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.018220     Document Type: Article

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