φ2FLIM: A technique for alias-free frequency domain fluorescence lifetime imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 23181-23203

  Elder, Alan D ^a   Kaminski, Clemens F ^a,b   Frank, Jonathan H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIERS (SOLID STATE); MODULATION; PHASE MODULATION;

EFFECTIVE SUPPRESSION; FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS; SUPERCONTINUUM RADIATION; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES; TWO-COMPONENT MIXTURES;

FLUOROPHORES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 72049115277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.023181     Document Type: Article

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