Hardware implementation algorithm and error analysis of high-speed fluorescence lifetime sensing systems using center-of-mass method

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Li, Day Uei ^a   Rae, Bruce ^a   Andrews, Robin ^a   Arlt, Jochen ^a   Henderson, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Center of mass; Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy; Lifetime based sensing; Photon counting; Single photon avalanche diode; Time resolved imaging

Indexed keywords

CENTER-OF-MASS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING MICROSCOPY; LIFETIME-BASED SENSING; PHOTON COUNTING; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; TIME RESOLVED IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; AVALANCHE DIODES; DIAGNOSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR STATISTICS; FLUORESCENCE; HARDWARE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; SENSORS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

8 ANILINO 1 NAPHTHALENESULFONIC ACID; COUMARIN 6; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE; METHANOL; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANILINO NAPHTHALENESULFONATES; COUMARINS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENT DYES; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; METHANOL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; THIAZOLES; WATER;

EID: 77953161482     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3309737     Document Type: Article

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