Introduction to Fluorescence

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Taylor & Francis, Jan 22, 2014 - Science - 313 pages
The phenomenon known as fluorescence is now widely used in the chemical and life sciences largely due to the development of highly sophisticated fluorescent probe chemistries and the commercial availability of these probes as well as the development of novel microscopy approaches. Introduction to Fluorescence helps readers acquire a sound understan
 

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1 Introduction
1
2 Absorption of Light
13
3 Instrumentation
27
4 Emission and Excitation Spectra
57
5 Polarization and Anisotropy
75
6 TimeResolved Fluorescence
101
7 Quantum Yields and Quenching
131
8 Förster Resonance Energy Transfer
145
9 Brief Overview of Fluorescence Microscopy
163
10 Fluorophores
191
11 Intrinsic Protein Fluorescence
251
Rogues Gallery of Fluorescence Artifacts and Errors
277
Back Cover
286
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David M. Jameson is a professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, having previously served there as professor and chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. He earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his graduate thesis advisor was Professor Gregorio Weber. Prior to his move to the University of Hawaii, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the CNRS, University of Paris-South and he was an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Jameson is the co-organizer of the International Weber Symposia on Innovative Fluorescence Methodologies in Biochemistry and Medicine, which have been held every three years since 1986 (since 1995 in Hawaii). He serves on the editorial boards of The Scientific World Journal, Analytical Biochemistry, and Methods and Applications in Fluorescence. He is a member of the advisory board for the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics (supported by the National Institutes of Health) at the University of California, Irvine. He was the recipient of the 2004 Gregorio Weber Award for Excellence in Fluorescence Theory/Application.

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