In vivo imaging of anatomical features of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans using non-linear (TPEF-SHG-THG) microscopy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6630, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gualda, E J ^a   Filippidis, G ^a   Voglis, G ^b   Mari, M ^a   Fotakis, C ^a   Tavernarakis, N ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cellular and molecular imaging; Multiphoton processes; Scanning microscopy

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HARMONIC GENERATION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; TISSUE; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CELLULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTODAMAGE EFFECTS; SCANNING MICROSCOPY; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATION FLUORESCENCE (TPEF);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 36248953936     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.727636     Document Type: Conference Paper

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