Structured illumination microscopy of autofluorescent aggregations in human tissue

Micron

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 330-335

  Best, Gerrit ^a   Amberger, Roman ^a   Baddeley, David ^a,b   Ach, Thomas ^c   Dithmar, Stefan ^c   Heintzmann, Rainer ^d,e   Cremer, Christoph ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autofluorescence; Interferometer; Microscopy; Retinal pigment epithelium; Structured illumination

Indexed keywords

AUTOFLUORESCENCE; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; HUMAN EYE; HUMAN TISSUES; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL IMAGE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPY; TWYMAN-GREEN INTERFEROMETERS;

COPYING; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; MICROSCOPES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; TISSUE;

ALDEHYDES;

CYTOLOGY; EYE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; PROCEDURES;

EYE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 79952037111     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2010.06.016     Document Type: Article

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