Strategies to maximize the performance of a STED microscope

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 7362-7374

  Galiani, Silvia ^a   Harke, Benjamin ^a   Vicidomini, Giuseppe ^a   Lignani, Gabriele ^a   Benfenati, Fabio ^a   Diaspro, Alberto ^a   Bianchini, Paolo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES;

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; IMAGING CALIBRATION; POLARIZATION STATE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SQUARE ROOTS; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONTINUUM LASER; TEMPORAL ALIGNMENT; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TIME GATING;

ALIGNMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASERS; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84859396285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.007362     Document Type: Article

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