Characterizing point spread functions of two-photon fluorescence microscopy in turbid medium

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 450-459

  Dong, Chen Yuan ^a   Koenig, Karsten ^b   So, Peter ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Medicine; Microscopy; Near infrared

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS; TISSUE; TURBIDITY;

POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

MICROSPHERE; SEPHAROSE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EVALUATION; GEL; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; GELS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEPHAROSE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 0141756162     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1578644     Document Type: Article

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