Two-color excited-state absorption imaging of melanins

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6424, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Fu, Dan ^a   Ye, Tong ^b   Matthews, Thomas E ^b   Yurtsever, Gunay ^c   Hong, Lian ^b   Simon, John D ^b   Warren, Warren S ^b,c,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Duke University

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Eumelanin; Excited state absorption; Melanoma; Multiphoton microscopy; Pheomelanin; Two color two photon absorption; Two photon absorption

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS;

EUMELANIN; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; MELANOMA; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PHEOMELANIN; TWO-COLOR TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 34548274632     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.698756     Document Type: Conference Paper

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