Waveguide evanescent field fluorescence microscopy: High contrast imaging of a domain forming mixed lipid Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer mimicking lung surfactant

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Hassanzadeh, Abdollah ^a,b   Mittler, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KURDISTAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Contrast; Evanescent microscopy; Fluorescence microscopy; Langmuir Blodgett films; Lipids; Photobleaching; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CELLS; CONTACT REGIONS; CONTRAST; EPI-FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPIES; EVANESCENT FIELDS; EVANESCENT MICROSCOPY; FINE STRUCTURES; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; LANGMUIR-BLODGETT MONOLAYERS; LUNG SURFACTANTS; MONOLAYER SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY; WIDE FIELD;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MONOLAYERS; PHOTOBLEACHING; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; ULTRATHIN FILMS; WAVEGUIDES;

LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILMS;

GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPID; LUNG SURFACTANT; PALMITIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BLEACHING; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPIDS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PALMITIC ACID; PHOTOBLEACHING; PRESSURE; PULMONARY SURFACTANTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80455163274     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3569095     Document Type: Article

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