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3-D stimulated emission depletion microscopy with programmable aberration correction

Martin O Lenz1, Hugo G Sinclair, Alexander Savell

  • 1Photonics Group, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.

Journal of Biophotonics
|June 22, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
STED microscopyconfocal microscopyfluorescence microscopyimmune synapsenanoscopysuper-resolution

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