Two-photon imaging using adaptive phase compensated ultrashort laser pulses

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Xi, Peng ^a   Andegeko, Yair ^b   Pestov, Dmitry ^b   Lovozoy, Vadim V ^b   Dantus, Marcos ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive dispersion compensation; cell imaging; chromatic dispersion; multiphoton microscopy; two photon excitation fluorescence; ultrashort pulse

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE DISPERSION COMPENSATION; ADAPTIVE PHASE; CELL IMAGING; DISPERSIVE ELEMENTS; FOCAL PLANE; HIGH-ORDER; INTERFERENCE PHASE; INTERFEROMETRIC AUTOCORRELATION; LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; MULTIPHOTONS; PHASE DISTORTIONS; PULSE SHAPER; SECOND ORDERS; TWO PHOTON; TWO PHOTON EXCITATION FLUORESCENCE; TWO PHOTON IMAGING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FLUORESCENCE; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER EXCITATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PULSE GENERATORS; TISSUE; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PHOTONS;

RATTUS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 65349155830     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3059629     Document Type: Article

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