Analysis of the fluorescence temporal point-spread function in a turbid medium and its application to optical imaging

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Han, Sung Ho ^a   Farshchi Heydari, Salman ^a   Hall, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Scattering media; Time domain

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; IN-VIVO; OPTICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL METHODS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SCATTERING MEDIA; TIME DOMAIN; TURBID MEDIUM;

FLUORESCENCE; SCATTERING;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 62449201745     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3042271     Document Type: Article

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