High performance, LED powered, waveguide based total internal reflection microscopy

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ramachandran, Srinivasan ^a   Cohen, Daniel A ^b   Quist, Arjan P ^c,d   Lal, Ratnesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c RC Nano Corp   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84881344296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02133     Document Type: Article

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