Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy in the medical sciences

Protoplasma

Volumn 251, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 293-305

  Ebrecht, René ^a,b   Don Paul, Craig ^a,b   Wouters, Fred S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Center for Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CNMPB)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endogenous fluorophores; Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM); Fluorescent proteins (FPs); F rster resonance energy transfer (FRET); Frequency domain FLIM (FD FLIM); Organic dyes; Quantum dots (QDs); Quenchers; Time domain FLIM (TD FLIM)

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; QUANTUM DOT;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84894245371     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00709-013-0598-4     Document Type: Review

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