Image analysis for denoising full-field frequency-domain fluorescence lifetime images

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 221-237

  Spring, B Q ^a,c   Clegg, R M ^a,b  

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

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

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Denoising; FLIM; Fluorescence lifetime imaging; Image analysis; Microscopy; Polar plot; TI Haar; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUOROPHORES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

DE-NOISING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME-RESOLVED IMAGING MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; HOMODYNES; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; IMAGING MICROSCOPY; POLAR PLOT; TI-HAAR; WAVELET;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME RESOLVED IMAGING MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WAVEFORM;

EID: 68349128110     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2009.03212.x     Document Type: Article

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