Fast and noninvasive fluorescence imaging of biological tissues in vivo using a flying-spot scanner

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1034-1041

  Ramanujam, Nirmala ^a   Chen, Jinxian ^b   Gossage, Kirk ^c   Richards Kortum, Rebecca ^c   Chance, Britton ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Auto fluorescence; Cancer; Fluorescence; Flying spot scanner; Imaging; In vivo; Precancer; Tissues

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MIRRORS; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FLYING-SPOT SCANNER (FSS); MULTICHANNEL FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; RASTER SCANNING;

TISSUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GLIOMA; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLIOMA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034882320     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.942594     Document Type: Article

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