Reducing background contributions in fluorescence fluctuation time-traces for single-molecule measurements in solution

Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 532-542

  Földes Papp, Zeno ^a   Liao, Shih Chu Jeff ^a   You, Tiefeng ^a   Barbieri, Beniamino ^a  

^a ISS Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Autofluorescence; Detector gating; Early and late time gating; FCS; Fluorescence correlation; Fluorescence lifetime; Modulated excitation; Pulsed excitation; Raman and Rayleigh stray light; Scattered background; Single molecule fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy and imaging; Solution; TCSPC; Time correlated single photon counting

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIFFRACTION; DIODE LASER; FLUORESCENCE FLUCTUATION MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTON; PROCESS DESIGN; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; LASER; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TIME;

WATER;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ALGORITHMS; FLUORESCENCE; LASERS; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 70350444951     PISSN: 13892010     EISSN: 18734316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920109788922137     Document Type: Article

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