Imaging chromophores with undetectable fluorescence by stimulated emission microscopy

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7267, 2009, Pages 1105-1109

  Min, Wei ^a   Lu, Sijia ^a   Chong, Shasha ^a   Roy, Rahul ^a   Holtom, Gary R ^a   Sunney Xie, X ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CHROMOGENIC SUBSTRATE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ABSORPTION; CYTOCHROME; FLUORESCENCE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMAGING METHOD; OPTICAL METHOD; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIMULATED EMISSION MICROSCOPY; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; EAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, REPORTER; HEMOGLOBINS; INDOLES; LAC OPERON; LASERS; MICE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70350500194     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08438     Document Type: Article

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