Optics far beyond the diffraction limit

Springer Handbook of Lasers and Optics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1359-1397

  Cremer, Christoph ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY IMB   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LASER EXCITATION; STIMULATED EMISSION;

DIFFRACTION LIMITS; FAR-FIELD MICROSCOPIES; FLUORESCENT MOLECULES; FOCUSED LASER BEAMS; HOMOGENEOUS EXCITATION; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 85037975938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19409-2_20     Document Type: Chapter

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124. P. Edelmann, C. Cremer: Improvement of confocal spectral precision distance microscopy (SPDM), Optical Diagnostics of Living Cells III., Vol. 3921, ed. by D.L. Farkas, R.C. Leif (SPIE 2000) pp. 313-320
125. G. Schneider, P.G. Guttmann, S. Heim, S. Rehbein, F. Mueller, K. Nagashima, J.B. Heymann, W.G. Müller, J.G. McNally: Three-dimensional cellular ultrastructure resolved by X-ray microscopy, Nat. Methods 7, 985-987 (2010)
126. C.H. Eskiw, A. Rapp, D.R. Carter, P. R. Cook: RNA polymerase II activity is located on the surface of protein-rich transcription factories, J. Cell Sci. 121, 1999-2007 (2008)
127. T. Ach, G. Best, M. Ruppenstein, R. Amberger, C. Cremer, S. Dithmar: Hochauflösende Fluoreszenzmikroskopie des retinalen Pigmentepithels mittels strukturierter Beleuchtung, Ophthalmologe 107, 1037-1042 (2010)
128. A.L. Grab: In situ Nachweis von Proteinadsorptionsprozessen mittels kombinierter Schwingquarzmikrowägung und Plasmonenresonanz sowie Detektion einzelner Alexa-Moleküle mit SPDM, Diploma Thesis Physics (Univ. Heidelberg, Heidelberg 2011), in German
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130. M.F. Juette, T.J. Gould, M.D. Lessard, M.J. Mlod-zianoski, B.S. Nagpure, B.T. Bennett, S.T. Hess, J. Bewersdorf: Three-dimensional sub-100 nm Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy of Thick Samples, Nat. Methods 5(6), 527-529 (2008)
131. J. Rouquette, C. Cremer, T. Cremer, S. Fakan: Functional nuclear architecture studied by microscopy: State of research and perspectives, Int. Rev. Cell. Mol. Biol. 282, 1-90 (2010)