Fluorescence lifetime imaging from time resolved measurements using a shape-based approach

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 8843-8855

  Álvarez, Diego ^a   Medina, Paúl ^a   Moscoso, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; GRADIENT METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; FLUORESCENT MARKERS; LEVEL-SET TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PIXEL-BASED TECHNIQUES; TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY ALGORITHM;

FLUOROPHORES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 66449123912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008843     Document Type: Article

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