Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy: Incorporation of probe volume effects into the three-dimensional Gaussian approximation

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 27, 2004, Pages 5251-5262

  Marrocco, Michele ^a  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PROBES;

ELECTRONIC CORRELATORS; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; GAUSSIAN APPROXIMATION; QUANTUM YIELD;

CORRELATION DETECTORS;

EID: 4944249030     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005251     Document Type: Article

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