"This volume features papers on new spectroscopic methods and techniques, the development and application of fluorescent probes, and new techniques and applications of fluorescence imaging. Specific areas include the following: fluorescence lifetime, fluorescence (in vivo) imaging, time-resolved fluorescence, luminescence anisotropy, fluorescent (NMIR) labels, luminescent lanthanides, fluorescent sensors and probes, fluorescence microscopy, FRET, fluorescent nanoparticles and dots, high-throughput screening, fluorescent bioassays, luminescence-based DNA technologies, FISH and immunohistochemistry, luminescence on metal surfaces, fluorescent proteins, upconversion, multiphoton fluorescence, confocal techniques, near-field and far-field techniques, single photon counting, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), and flow cytometry."--Publisher's description.