Microscopy and its focal switch

Nature Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 24-32

  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

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIFFRACTION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GROUND STATE DEPLETION MICROSCOPY; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOSTRUCTURES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 58149236663     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1291     Document Type: Article

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