MhFLIM: Resolution of heterogeneous fluorescence decays in widefield lifetime microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1557-1570

  Schlachter, S ^a   Elder, A D ^a   Esposito, A ^a   Kaminski, G S ^a   Frank, J H ^b   Van Geest, L K ^c   Kaminski, C F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Lambert Instruments Inc   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PARTICLE BEAMS;

BIEXPONENTIAL DECAY; FLUORESCENCE DECAYS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES; SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING; WIDE-FIELD MICROSCOPIES;

FLUORESCENCE;

COLORING AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; TIME; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLORING AGENTS; FLUORESCENCE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; SOLUTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 59749086660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.001557     Document Type: Article

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