A modified phasor approach for analyzing time-gated fluorescence lifetime images

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 248-258

  Fereidouni, F ^a   Esposito, A ^b   Blab, G A ^a   Gerritsen, H C ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HUTCHISON MRC RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluorescence lifetime imaging; Global analysis; Phasor representation; Time gating

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PARTICLE BEAMS;

BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; LIFETIME ANALYSIS; PHASOR REPRESENTATION; PHASORS; TIME GATING; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; VERSATILE TOOLS;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME GATED FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 81255168136     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2011.03533.x     Document Type: Article

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