Achieving λ/10 resolution CW STED nanoscopy with a Ti:Sapphire oscillator

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Yujia ^a,b   Ding, Yichen ^b   Alonas, Eric ^c   Zhao, Wenli ^b   Santangelo, Philip J ^c   Jin, Dayong ^d   Piper, James A ^d   Teng, Junlin ^b   Ren, Qiushi ^a,b   Xi, Peng ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTO 647N; DYLIGHT 650; FLUORESCENT DYE; GENOMIC RNA; NANOSPHERE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL GRANULE; CELL LABELING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTINUOUS WAVE STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFRACTION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HEP 2 CELL; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NANOIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; OSCILLATOR; PUMP DESIGN; RAT; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS;

CYTOSKELETON; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM;

EID: 84862995094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040003     Document Type: Article

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