New Methods.: Theoretical Basis and Potential Applications to Biology

The following sections are included:

• TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY (TIRF) IN CELLS

• SURFACE FLUORESCENCE DETECTION BY A MICROSCOPE

• INTRACELLULAR SENSING AND OPTICAL IMAGING BEYOND THE DIFFRACTION LIMIT: SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY (SNOM)

• OPTICAL FORCES, OPTICAL TRAPS, OPTICAL TWEEZERS IN COMBINATION WITH MICROSPECTROSCOPY AND FLUORESCENT DNA INTERCALATING DYES

• FOURIER INTERFEROMETRIC STIMULATION (FIS) AND SPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS

• FOURIER TRANSFORM MULTIPLEX SPECTROSCOPY AND SPECTRAL IMAGING OF PROTOPORPHYRIN IN SINGLE MELANOMA CELLS

• FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION (FISH)

  • Current FISH Methodology

  • FISH Applicable to Metaphase Spreads and Interphase Chromosome

  • Chromosomal Localization of Clone by FISH

  • Activity Banding of Human Chromosomes

• BEYOND FISH: MULTICOLOR SPECTRAL KARYOTYPING OF HUMAN CHROMOSOMES (SKY)

• COMBINATORIAL MULTI-FLUOR FISH

• TWO-PHOTON EXCITATION INDUCED FLUORESCENCE

• THREE-PHOTON INDUCED FLUORESCENCE

• LIGHT FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING (LQ) AND STIMULATED EMISSION (SE)

• RELATED TOPICS: INFRARED IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY OF BREAST

• REFERENCES