Technique for measurement of fluorescence lifetime by use of stroboscopic excitation and continuous-wave detection

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2115-2123

  Matthews, D R ^a   Summers, H D ^a   Njoh, K ^a   Errington, R J ^a   Smith, P J ^a   Barber, P ^b   Ameer Beg, S ^b   Vojnovic, B ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RATE CONSTANTS; RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EXCITATION PULSE; EXCITATION SOURCE; MEASUREMENT PARAMETERS; RATE-EQUATION MODEL;

FLUORESCENCE;

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HALF LIFE TIME; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STROBOSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; HALF-LIFE; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STROBOSCOPY;

EID: 33645773414     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002115     Document Type: Article

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