Two-photon excited lifetime imaging of autofluorescence in cells during UVA and NIR photostress

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 197-204

  Konig K ^a,b   So, P T C ^c   Mantulin, W W ^c   Tromberg, B J ^d   Gratton, E ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond pulses; Laser microscopy; Lifetime imaging; NADH; Near infrared; Time resolved fluorescence; Two photon excited fluorescence

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUOROPHORES; INFRARED DEVICES; LASER EXCITATION; MITOCHONDRIA; PHOTONS; SAPPHIRE; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CELLULAR RESPONSE; LASER MICROSCOPY; LIFETIME IMAGING; NADH; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-INFRARED; PEAK POWER; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE; TWO-PHOTON EXCITED FLUORESCENCE;

COENZYMES;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL; CHO CELL; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS;

EID: 0029843925     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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