Imaging properties of high aperture multiphoton fluorescence scanning optical microscopes

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 127-141

  Higdon, P D ^a   Torok P ^a   Wilson, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Fluorescence microscopy; Imaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FLUORESCENCE SCANNING; HIGH-APERTURE; IMAGING PROPERTIES; LATERAL RESOLUTION; MULTIPHOTON FLUORESCENCE; MULTIPHOTON FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; SCANNING OPTICAL; THREE-PHOTON EXCITATION; TWO PHOTON;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORY;

EID: 0032961588     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1999.00448.x     Document Type: Article

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