Application of ultrafast gold luminescence to measuring the instrument response function for multispectral multiphoton fluorescence lifetime imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 13848-13861

  Talbot, Clifford R ^a   Patalay, Rakesh ^b   Munro, Ian ^a   Warren, Sean ^a   Ratto, Fulvio ^c   Matteini, Paolo ^c   Pini, Roberto ^c   Breunig, H Georg ^d,e   König, Karsten ^d,e   Chu, Antony C ^b   Stamp, Gordon W ^f   Neil, Mark A A ^a   French, Paul M W ^a   Dunsby, Chris ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d JENLAB GMBH   (Germany)

^e Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust ^*  (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; GOLD; GOLD COMPOUNDS; NANORODS;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; EX-VIVO; FLUORESCENCE DECAYS; GOLD NANOROD; HUMAN SKIN; INSTRUMENT RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTIPHOTON FLUORESCENCE; SPECTRAL CHANNELS; SPECTRAL EMISSION; ULTRA-FAST; WIDE SPECTRAL RANGE;

FLUOROPHORES;

GOLD; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

GOLD; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUMINESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; NANOTUBES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960542503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013848     Document Type: Article

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