A single-photon fluorescence and multi-photon spectroscopic study of atherosclerotic lesions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7386, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Smith, Michael S D ^a   Ko, Alex C T ^a   Ridsdale, Andrew ^a   Schattka, Bernie ^a   Pegoraro, Adrian ^a   Hewko, Mark D ^a   Shiomi, Masashi ^b   Stolow, Albert ^a   Sowa, Michael G ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Intrinsic fluorescence; Multi photon microscopy; Second harmonic generation; Two photon excited fluorescence

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; INTRINSIC FLUORESCENCE; MULTI-PHOTON MICROSCOPY; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; TWO PHOTON EXCITED FLUORESCENCE;

CORUNDUM; DISEASES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PARTICLE BEAMS; SCANNING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 70449591879     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.840500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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