Enhanced melanin fluorescence by stepwise three-photon excitation

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1042-1049

  Kerimo, Josef ^a   Rajadhyaksha, Milind ^b   Dimarzio, Charles A ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUMELANIN; MELANIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CUTTLEFISH; FLUORESCENCE; HAIR; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENCE; HAIR; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; MELANINS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEPIA; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

SEPIA OFFICINALIS; SEPIIDAE;

EID: 80052407076     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: 17511097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2011.00949.x     Document Type: Article

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