FPGA implementation of a 32x32 autocorrelator array for analysis of fast image series

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 17767-17782

  Buchholz, Jan ^a   Krieger, Jan Wolfgang ^a   Mocsár, Gábor ^b   Kreith, Balázs ^b   Charbon, Edoardo ^c   Vámosi, György ^b   Kebschull, Udo ^d   Langowski, Jörg ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUOROPHORES; PARTICLE BEAMS;

ACQUISITION RATES; AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; AUTOCORRELATORS; CMOS INTEGRATION; CORRELATION ALGORITHM; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA SETS; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE FLUCTUATION; FLUORESCENT MOLECULES; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; IMAGE SERIES; IMAGING DETECTOR; LIVING CELL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; REAL-TIME IMAGES; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; SINGLE PHOTONS; SPAD ARRAY; TIME-DEPENDENT;

PIXELS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHOTONS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84864588401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.017767     Document Type: Article

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