Innovative techniques, sensors, and approaches for imaging biofilms at different scales

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 233-242

  Neu, Thomas R ^a   Lawrence, John R ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Laser microscopy; Mesoscale; Microscale; Nanoscale; Sensors

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCHROME; QUANTUM DOT;

BIOFILM; BIOSENSOR; BLINK MICROSCOPY; CANNING LASER OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ECHOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LASER MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NANOPROBE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELECTIVE PLANE ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPY; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO PHOTON LASER MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; PROCEDURES;

BIOFILMS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84925845149     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2014.12.010     Document Type: Review

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