What is behind all those lifetimes anyway? Where do we go from here?

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7183, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chen, Yi Chun ^a   Spring, Bryan Q ^b   Buranachai, Chittanon ^b   Malachowski, George ^c   Clegg, Robert M ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Bioscience Applications Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Denoising; FLIM; Fluorescence lifetimes; Frequency domain; Image analysis; Imaging; Model free analysis; Morphology recognition; Polar plot; Time domain; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

DENOISING; FLIM; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN; IMAGING; MODEL-FREE ANALYSIS; POLAR PLOT; TIME-DOMAIN; WAVELETS;

FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENTS; MORPHOLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 65949083556     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.814952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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