Do fluorescence decays remitted from tissues accurately reflect intrinsic fluorophore lifetimes?

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1512-1514

  Vishwanath, Karthik ^a   Mycek, Mary Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY TIME; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLUORESCENCE DECAYS; FLUOROPHORES;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMARKERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MORPHOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TURBIDIMETERS;

FLUORESCENCE;

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3142681799     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.001512     Document Type: Article

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