Confocal microscopy and multi-photon excitation microscopy of human skin in vivo

Optics Express

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 2-10

  Masters, Barry R ^a   So, Peter T C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER PULSES; LIGHT SOURCES; SCANNING; SKIN;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MULTIPHOTON EXCITATION MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL SECTIONS;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0002003925     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.8.000002     Document Type: Article

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