Quantitative lifetime unmixing of multiexponentially decaying fluorophores using single-frequency fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 378-389

  Kremers, Gert Jan ^a,b   Van Munster, Erik B ^a   Goedhart, Joachim ^a   Gadella Jr , Theodorus W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPOLYMERS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON;

EID: 46749125072     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.125229     Document Type: Article

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