Miniaturized two-photon microscope based on a flexible coherent fiber bundle and a gradient-index lens objective

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 2521-2523

  Göbel, Werner ^a   Kerr, Jason N D ^a   Nimmerjahn, Axel ^a   Helmchen, Fritjof ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER BUNDLES; IMAGING LENSES; LASER SCANNING; TWO-PHOTON MICROSCOPES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ENDOSCOPY; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; LASER PULSES; LENSES; MICROSCOPES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FIBERS;

PHOTONS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRONICS; ENDOSCOPE; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NEOCORTEX; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLLEN; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ENDOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MINIATURIZATION; NEOCORTEX; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLLEN; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 7044235295     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.002521     Document Type: Article

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