Fluorescence-lifetime determination in tissues or other scattering media from measurement of excitation and emission kinetics

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2325-2332

  Hutchinson, Christina L ^a   Troy, Tamara L ^a   Sevick Muraca, Eva M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHASE MEASUREMENT; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTONS; POLYSTYRENES; PROBABILITY; TISSUE;

AMPLITUDE DEMODULATION; DIETHYLTHIATRICARBOCYANINE; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME MEASUREMENT; FLUORESCENT DECAY KINETICS; FLUOROPHORES; LIGHT EXCITATION; NONSCATTERING MEDIA;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0030150814     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.002325     Document Type: Article

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