Hyperspectral unmixing for removing autofluorescence from paraffin-embedded, formalin-fixed tissue sections

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5969, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Constantinou, P ^a   Wilson, B C ^a   Damaskinos, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Biomedical Photometrics Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autofluorescence; Confocal; Fluorescence; Hyperspectral; Microscopy; Pathology

Indexed keywords

AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CONFOCAL; HYPERSPECTRAL;

FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PARAFFINS; PATHOLOGY; TISSUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33244466955     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.628178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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