Multispectral fluorescence lifetime imaging of feces-contaminated apples by time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence imaging system with tunable excitation wavelengths

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1608-1616

  Kim, Moon S ^a   Cho, Byoung Kwan ^b   Lefcourt, Alan M ^a   Chen, Yud Ren ^a   Kang, Sukwon ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^c National Institute of Animal Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRUITS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER EXCITATION; LASER OPTICS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

BIOLOGICAL OBJECTS; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; FLUORESCENCE DECAYS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; SCALE CHARACTERIZATION; TIME-RESOLVED LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE;

FLUORESCENCE;

APPLE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FECES; FLUORESCENCE; LASER;

FECES; FLUORESCENCE; LASERS; MALUS;

EID: 48849099820     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001608     Document Type: Article

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