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Live Cell Imaging of F-actin Dynamics via Fluorescent Speckle Microscopy (FSM)
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Live Cell Imaging of F-actin Dynamics via Fluorescent Speckle Microscopy (FSM)

Published on: August 5, 2009

Speckle fluctuation spectroscopy of intracellular motion in living tissue using coherence-domain digital holography

Kwan Jeong, John J Turek, David D Nolte

    Journal of Biomedical Optics
    |July 10, 2010
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    optical coherence tomographyintracellular dynamicslabel-free imagingbiomedical optics

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