Fine depth resolution of two-photon absorption-induced photoacoustic microscopy using low-frequency bandpass filtering

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13365-13377

  Yamaoka, Yoshihisa ^a   Nambu, Mika ^a   Takamatsu, Tetsuro ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTONS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

BAND PASS FILTERING; DEPTH RESOLUTION; FREQUENCY FILTERING; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LOW FREQUENCY; NUMERICAL APERTURE; OBJECTIVE LENS; PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNALS; PHOTOACOUSTIC WAVE; SMALL TARGETS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TWO PHOTON; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY;

ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON;

EID: 79959892314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013365     Document Type: Article

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