Spherical nanosized focal spot unravels the interior of cells

Nature Methods

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 539-544

  Schmidt, Roman ^a   Wurm, Christian A ^a   Jakobs, Stefan ^a   Engelhardt, Johann ^b   Egner, Alexander ^a   Hell, Stefan W ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFRACTION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOPHYSICS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; VERO CELLS;

EID: 44449144092     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1214     Document Type: Article

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