Innovating lifetime microscopy: A compact and simple tool for life sciences, screening, and diagnostics

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Esposito, Alessandro ^a,b   Gerritsen, Hans C ^b   Oggier, Thierry ^c   Lustenberger, Felix ^c   Wouters, Fred S ^a  

^a EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fluorescence lifetime; Lock in imaging; Microscopy; Screening

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DIAGNOSIS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT SOURCES; LOCKS (FASTENERS); METALS; MOS DEVICES; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; PROTEINS; SEARCH ENGINES; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL DESIGN; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; LIFE-SCIENCES; LOCK IN IMAGING; LOCK-IN; PHYSICOCHEMICAL ENVIRONMENTS; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; SIMPLE++; WIDE-FIELD;

FORSTER RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

ALL-SOLID-STATE DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING MICROSCOPY (FLIM); LOCK-IN IMAGING; WIDE-FIELD FREQUENCY-DOMAIN;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MASS SCREENING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MINIATURIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33748468432     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2208999     Document Type: Article

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