In vivo measurement of time-resolved autofluorescence at the human fundus

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1214-1222

  Schweitzer, Dietrich ^a   Hammer, Martin ^a   Schweitzer, Frank ^a   Anders, Roswitha ^a   Doebbecke, Torsten ^a   Schenke, Stefan ^a   Gaillard, E R ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coenzymes; Fluorescence lifetime imaging; Human fundus; Lipofuscin; Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy; Time correlated single photon counting; Time resolved autofluorescence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COENZYMES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING; HUMAN FUNDUS; LIPOFUSCIN; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; TIME CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; TIME RESOLVED AUTOFLUORESCENCE;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 12844282387     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1806833     Document Type: Article

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