Ultrasensitive detection of waste products in water using fluorescence emission cavity-enhanced spectroscopy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7208-7211

  Bixler, Joel N ^a   Cone, Michael T ^a   Hokr, Brett H ^a   Mason, John D ^a   Figueroa, Eleonora ^a   Fry, Edward S ^a   Yakovlev, Vladislav V ^a   Scully, Marlan O ^a,b,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEME; HEMOGLOBIN; UROBILIN; WATER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENZYME METABOLISM; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION CAVITY ENHANCED SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DEVICE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

FEMTOMOLAR DETECTION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; BILE PIGMENTS; BILIRUBIN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FECES; HEME; HUMANS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; URINE; UROBILIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84901008922     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1403175111     Document Type: Article

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