Fluorophores for confocal microscopy: Photophysics and photochemistry

Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 338-352

  Tsien, Roger Y ^a   Ernst, Lauren ^b   Waggoner, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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