Nanostructure analysis using spatially modulated illumination microscopy

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2640-2646

  Baddeley, David ^a   Batram, Claudia ^a   Weiland, Yanina ^a   Cremer, Christoph ^a,b   Birk, Udo J ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CELL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CALIBRATION; CELLS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 38449114077     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.399     Document Type: Article

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