An evaluation of two-photon excitation versus confocal and digital deconvolution fluorescence microscopy imaging in Xenopus morphogenesis

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 172-181

  Periasamy, Ammasi ^a   Skoglund, Paul ^a   Noakes, Colten ^a   Keller, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal; Deep tissue imaging; Digital deconvolution; Embryos; Fluorescence microscopy; Green fluorescent protein; Point spread function; Two photon excitation; Xenopus morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; LASER EXCITATION; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

CONFOCAL; DECONVOLUTIONS; DEEP-TISSUE IMAGING; DIGITAL DECONVOLUTION; EMBRYO; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATIONS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS MORPHOGENESIS;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GASTRULA; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033230195     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19991101)47:3<172::AID-JEMT3>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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