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Back Cover: Cell nuclei have lower refractive index and mass density than cytoplasm (J. Biophotonics 10/2016)
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of biophotonics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.877
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1864-0648
pISSN - 1864-063X
DOI - 10.1002/jbio.201670103
Subject(s) - biophotonics , cytoplasm , cover (algebra) , index (typography) , nucleus , refractive index , physics , measure (data warehouse) , computer science , optics , biology , world wide web , microbiology and biotechnology , data mining , photonics , engineering , mechanical engineering
The refractive index (RI) distribution of cells is an important property for many biological and technological applications. It is often assumed that the RI of the nucleus is larger than that of the cytoplasm, a hypothesis which is challenged by contradicting reports in literature. M. Schürmann et al. measure the RI of the nucleus and find that it is in fact lower than the RI of the cytoplasm for several cell lines. Further details can be found in the article by M. Schürmann et al. on page 1068 .