Temporal focusing with spatially modulated excitation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 5391-5401

  Papagiakoumou, Eirini ^a   De Sars, Vincent ^a   Emiliani, Valentina ^a   Oron, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

GEOMETRICAL DISPERSION; HOMOGENEOUS EXCITATION; ILLUMINATION PATTERNS; REGION-OF-INTEREST IMAGING; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; SPATIAL MODULATIONS; SPATIALLY MODULATED; TWO-PHOTON FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

MODULATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 65249183860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005391     Document Type: Article

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