A guide to light-sheet fluorescence microscopy for multiscale imaging

Nature Methods

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 360-373

  Power, Rory M ^a,b,c   Huisken, Jan ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING; IMAGING; LARGE VOLUME IMAGING; LIGHT SHEET FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MULTIVIEW IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ULTRAFAST VOLUME IMAGING; ANIMAL; BIOMEDICINE; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; CELLS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING;

EID: 85021858027     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4224     Document Type: Review

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