Flash lamp-excited time-resolved fluorescence microscope suppresses autofluorescence in water concentrates to deliver an 11-fold increase in signal-to-noise ratio

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 725-734

  Connally, Russell ^a   Veal, Duncan ^a   Piper, James ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autofluorescence; Chelate; Europium; Giardia lamblia; Lanthanides; Microscopy; Time resolved fluorescence

Indexed keywords

CHELATE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HEPTAFLUOROHEXANEDION CHLOROSULFOTERPHENYL; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PARASITE; TIME RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; WATER CONCENTRATES;

BIOSYNTHESIS; DISCHARGE LAMPS; EUROPIUM; FLUORESCENCE; LASER APPLICATIONS; MICROSCOPES; PHENOLS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WATER ANALYSIS;

MICROORGANISMS;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; MUS;

PHOTOPROTEIN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMMUNOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 4444274845     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1756594     Document Type: Article

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