Waveguide evanescent field fluorescence microscopy: Thin film fluorescence intensities and its application in cell biology

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Hassanzadeh, Abdollah ^a   Nitsche, Michael ^a   Mittler, Silvia ^a   Armstrong, Souzan ^b   Dixon, Jeff ^b   Langbein, Uwe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c RHEINMAIN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ION EXCHANGE; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LUMINESCENCE; MICROSCOPES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OSTEOBLASTS; PIGMENTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THICK FILMS; THIN FILMS; ULTRATHIN FILMS; WAVEGUIDES;

(HI-BI) WAVEGUIDE; AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); BONE MATRIX; CELL ATTACHMENTS; EVANESCENT FIELDS; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY (FI); IN-CELL; INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA; ION EXCHANGED WAVEGUIDES; LANGMUIR-BLODGETT (LB) FILMS; LIVING CELLS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY (TIRFM);

LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILMS;

EID: 45149103517     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2937840     Document Type: Article

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