On the fundamental imaging-depth limit in two-photon microscopy

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3139-3149

  Theer, Patrick ^a,b   Denk, Winfried ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS;

IMAGING DEPTH; NUMERICAL APERTURE;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33845887246     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.23.003139     Document Type: Article

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