Time-gated single photon counting enables separation of CARS microscopy data from multiphoton-excited tissue autofluorescence

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16839-16851

  Ly, Sonny ^a   McNerney, Gregory ^a   Fore, Samantha ^a   Chan, James ^a,b   Huser, Thomas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EXCITED STATES; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; RAMAN SCATTERING; RATS; SEED; TISSUE;

AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CONFOCAL IMAGING; PHOTON COUNTING;

PHOTONS;

EID: 37149027804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016839     Document Type: Article

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