Wide-field photon counting fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy: Application to photosynthesizing systems

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-168

  Petrášek, Zdeněk ^a   Eckert, Hann Jörg ^b   Kemnitz, Klaus ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c EuroPhoton GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acaryochloris marina; Chlorophyll; FLIM; Fluorescence lifetime imaging; Photosynthesis; QA detector; Time correlated single photon counting

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TIME;

CYANOBACTERIA; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHOTONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TIME FACTORS;

ACARYOCHLORIS MARINA;

EID: 76149092166     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-009-9444-0     Document Type: Review

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