Ultrafast widefield optical sectioning microscopy by Multifocal Temporal Focusing

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 19645-19655

  Vaziri, Alipasha ^a   Shank, Charles V ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FOCUSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SCANNING;

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BIO-IMAGING; BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAMS; ECHELLE GRATINGS; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS; IMAGING SPEED; LIMITING FACTORS; MECHANICAL MOVING PARTS; MULTIFOCAL; OPTICAL SECTIONING; OPTICAL SECTIONING MICROSCOPY; PICOSECOND TIME SCALE; SCANNING MICROSCOPE; TEMPORAL DOMAIN; TEMPORAL FOCUSING; TWO PHOTON; TWO PHOTON IMAGING; ULTRA-FAST; WIDE-FIELD;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LENSES; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77956985256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.019645     Document Type: Article

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