In vivo autofluorescence lifetime imaging at the fundus of the human eye

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6138, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Schweitzer, Dietrich ^a   Hammer, Martin ^a   Schweitzer, Frank ^a   Schenke, Stefan ^a   Birckner, Eckhard ^a   Becker, Wolfgang ^b   Bergmann, Axel ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b BECKER AND HICKL GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

A2E; AGE; Autofluorescence; Emission spectrum; Eye; FAD; Fluorescence lifetime; Fluorescence spectrum; Time correlated single photon counting

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTONS; QUENCHING;

A2E; AGE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; EMISSION SPECTRUM; EYE; FAD; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRUM; TIME CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33745411112     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.644692     Document Type: Conference Paper

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