Total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy illuminator for improved imaging of cell surface events

Current Protocols in Cytometry

Volumn , Issue SUPPL.61, 2012, Pages

  Johnson, Daniel S ^a   Jaiswal, Jyoti K ^b,c   Simon, Sanford ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell imaging; Fluorescence; Total internal reflection fluorescence microcopy

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CELL SURFACE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CYTOSOL; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EXCITATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ILLUMINATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LASER; LIGHT INTENSITY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISM; PROCESS DESIGN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84868298530     PISSN: 19349297     EISSN: 19349300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/0471142956.cy1229s61     Document Type: Article

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