Two-photon excited hemoglobin fluorescence provides contrast mechanism for label-free imaging of microvasculature in vivo

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 834-836

  Li, Dong ^a   Zheng, Wei ^a   Zeng, Yan ^a   Luo, Yi ^b   Qu, Jianan Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MECHANISM; DIRECT VISUALIZATION; HIGH ENERGY; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO IMAGING; LABEL FREE; MICRO-VASCULATURE; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATIONS; TWO-PHOTON EXCITED; TWO-PHOTON FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEMOGLOBIN; MICROCIRCULATION; PHOTONS; VISUALIZATION;

FLUORESCENCE;

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HAMSTER; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROVASCULATURE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUTH; PHOTON; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; HEMOGLOBINS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROVESSELS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUTH; PHOTONS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 79952822817     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.000834     Document Type: Article

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