Research Article

Nanotomography of Cell Surfaces with Evanescent Fields

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Fluorescence images of chromosomes from T47D breast cancer cells stained with DAPI in metaphase. (a) Conventional fluorescence microscopy, (b) TIRFM at , and (c) tomographic imaging of chromosome-substrate distances (fluorescence excited at 391 nm and detected at  nm; image size: 55  m 55  m). The arrow marks overlapping chromosomes.
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