Enhancing precision in time-domain fluorescence lifetime imaging

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Chang, Ching Wei ^a   Mycek, Mary Ann ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Applied Physics Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy; Optimal signal gating; Total variation image denoising

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; DE-NOISING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING MICROSCOPY; IMAGING SPEED; LIGHT EXPOSURE; OPTIMAL SIGNAL GATING; OPTIMAL SIGNALS; PRECISION IMPROVEMENT; SPATIAL DIMENSION; TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS; TIME DOMAIN; TOTAL VARIATION;

FLUORESCENCE; NOISE POLLUTION CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOSTATISTICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; OPTICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 79952502266     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3494566     Document Type: Article

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