Photon counting, censor corrections, and lifetime imaging for improved detection in two-photon microscopy

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3106-3113

  Driscoll, Jonathan D ^a   Shih, Andy Y ^a   Iyengar, Satish ^b   Field, Jeffrey J ^a,c   White, G Allen ^a   Squier, Jeffrey A ^c   Cauwenberghs, Gert ^a   Kleinfeld, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence imaging microscopy; Noise; Photon pile up

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENSOR CORRECTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING; LASER MICROSCOPY; LIFETIME IMAGING; MICROSCOPE; MOUSE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PHOTON DETECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TWO PHOTON MICROSCOPY;

ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERSION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79957775690     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00649.2010     Document Type: Article

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