Two-photon excitation imaging based on a compact scanning head

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1999, Pages

  Diaspro, Alberto ^a   Corosu, Mirko ^b   Ramoino, Paola ^b   Robello, Mauro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRON SCATTERING; FLUORESCENCE; LASER BEAMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTONS; SCANNING;

COMPACT SCANNING HEAD; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; SCATTERING EFFECTS; TWO PHOTON EXCITATION IMAGING;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARAMECIUM;

EID: 6144257390     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/51.790987     Document Type: Article

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